Re: Lots of questions about Frost and Thaw

Dennis Nezic <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.network.freenet.support
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Fri, 09 Dec 2011 10:13:39 -0800, Walter Barnes wrote:
> On 12/8/2011 11:06 AM, Dennis Nezic wrote:
> > On Thu, 08 Dec 2011 09:12:01 -0800, Walter Barnes wrote:
> >> [...]
> >> Do I even need Frost?
> > If you want a forum on freenet, then sure, it is one of at least
> > three different forum systems. It's a standalone Java program (that
> > operates over your freenet node in the background.) FMS is a
> > similar, newer and better standalone program, written in C.
> > Freetalk is an even newer system, written as a Java plugin to your
> > node, and installed/accessed via your node's control panels
> > (normally) -- although I hear it (still) has performance issues.
> 
> Thanks Denis but I'm just looking for ways to access Frost message 
> boards.

That's fair enough. Although, you should be aware that the other two
newer systems were built specifically because Frost can be trivially
DOS-ed and rendered unusable. (They use "webs of trust", instead of
allowing anybody/anything to post.)
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