Re: [Bug-gnupedia] From the "Department of Wacky Ideas"

[Imran Ghory]

On 20 Jan 2001, at 11:57, Bob Dodd wrote:

> Take a leaf out of SETI-at-Home, and the MP3 file sharing systems (the
> new ones designed to get round being closed down by the RIAA). Instead
> of having a single reference server (with mirrors), have hundreds if
> not thousands of smaller servers, each holding a small (duplicated
> multiple times) part of the whole. 

1) I think we would rather avoid having illegal content in the 
encyclopedia, as it might get us off to a bad start.

2) The task is already complicated enough, without having to write 
out own distributed database/sql variant. If in the future we need 
more capacity and distribution is the way to do it we can solve it 
then.

Imran Ghory