Re: [Bug-gne]External Servers and Illegal/Extreme Content

[Imran Ghory]

On 17 Feb 2001, at 13:08, Tom Chance wrote:

> We ought ot be wary of what RMS when he warned us not
> to re-invent the wheel. New unproven technologies,
> like hosting a resource on a distributed network,

It's not a distributed network (in the traditional sense), it just a 
collection of sites which run the same software.

> could in theory be very good for GNE but they could
> also be fraught with problems because its never been
> tried before.

I call the precedent on the distributed network precedent of the  
Internet :-)

More specifically Gopher.

> But this could be done really easily by
> simply using existing technologies like just using
> Perl, a database, and apache. For each mirror you have
> a main server (with the articles on), a bank of perl
> interpreters (easy to expand should you need more
> processing power, just add another machine!), and
> either an index with that mirror, or a central index
> on the main server held in GNU.

We shouldn't alter our project aims to fit the program. We should 
set our aims and the code for them, let's not pick second best 
because "it's easier". 

Don't get too attached to a single idea, step back consider it 
unemotionally and independantly and think seriously what would be 
best for the encyclopedia.

Imran