Re: fun w/gnutella

[Steve Thomas <stephen.thomas@adelaide.edu.au>]

My immediate thought when I first heard about napster was: "hey, could this be
adapted for distributing etexts". But I've had no time recently to look into
these things more closely. Looks like my intuition was right.

The other thing of course will be e-print distibution of academic papers, and
what is that going to do to the Elsevier and Wileys of the publishing world?
Just have to convince the academics!


Steve


Daniel Chudnov wrote:
> 
> It's great to see all the comments on the docster article... thanks to
> everybody for sharing your thoughts.
> 
> On a related noted has anybody played with gnutella much yet?  Just for
> kicks, I've got it running here with some of the PG texts on my machine.
> If you've got a working client do a search on any of the following:
> 
> joseph conrad
> charles darwin
> human genome project
> 
> or just "gutenberg".  I'm using the following format for the files (all
> 'books', a la gutenberg) on my machine:
> 
> Author Name -- Title -- gutenberg.zip
> 
> ...and it's funny, somebody's already downloaded three or four of these
> files before I even sent this message.
> 
> Verrrry interesting.  -dc
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