25 December, 2006

webweaving: More peer-to-peer messaging thoughts.

So there's ePost, which is built on FreePastry. Routes e-mail through POP3, SMTP, and IMAP proxies, and stores n extra copies of each mail across enough peers to keep it alive, even if most of the network fails horribly. Now, the actual embedded proxy server stuff isn't needed, but couldn't some of this functionality be carried over?

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