X-Loop: openpgp.net From: Bill Stewart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Because of University pressure, the Napster folks are redesigning their > search engines to prefer local downloads over distant ones. > That's easy with a central database service - are there practical ways to > do it in a distributed database, especially one that's designed > as a moving target to avoid filtering? Have you read about Freenet, http://freenet.sourceforge.net ? It's design solves this problem. Mark