<div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">IIRC the last "distributed email" discussion on this list ended up on the<br>
problem of having a reliable smtp server on a box that might not be always<br>
online. As it was spotted, SMTP supports this case by having the ability<br>
to have secondaries MX, but then the problem was to store data on this<br>
(probably untrusty) MX.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>An important question to me: can we extend this principle to other services? In particular, mirroring public-facing web pages such as a diaspora/gnu social page so that it is never offline but never hosted insecurely? This may require the user action to establish a web of trust - eg this is my best mate, he can host even my sensitive social networking content, this other person is a work colleague and cannot.</div>
<div><br></div><div>-- </div><div>Alistair Davidson</div></div>