[p2p-hackers] Re: scalability

[Lucas Gonze]

> Ronald Wertlen wrote:
>
>> To sum up some: Gnutella is great in a non-critical scenario, but 
>> sucks for obsessive science types.  ;-)
>

A couple p2p-hackers jokes:
Punchline: one to screw in the lightbulb, then figure out why it worked, 
999 to figure out how to screw in the lightbulb.
DHTs are like the guy looking for his keys under the lamp rather than in 
the place where he lost them. 

A whole subculture of papers, publications and conferences (not to 
mention mailing lists) has been spawned around blind faith in the 
badness of Justin Frankel's topology and goodness of his promiscuous 
message-passing strategy.  Both of these are points of culture rather 
than science.