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• What? No servent?
  2001-04-10 11:40:42  peertal [Reply | View]
  
  
  The blurred client and server functionalities
  in software such as gnutella
  surely deserves a place in this
  list of P2P jargon.
  
  servent = a client with serving capacity, or servers acting as clients.
• What? No servent?
  2001-07-05 06:30:33  Lucas Gonze [Reply | View]
  
  
  Thanks for the heads-up on this obvious omission. Entry added for servent.

• About "Memes? Not necessarily"...
  2001-04-06 20:05:17  elsa [Reply | View]
  
  
  Malcolm, wouldn't the concept of p2p
  itself -- conceived as a right rather than a mechanism, be a classic meme?
  
  Lots could be said about it; clearly it's controversial in the way that copyright
  law, generically, isn't, given capitalism. I would think that the gap between the general acceptance of copyright law and the subcultural (or wider) rejection of the prohibition of p2p sharing represents a cultural meme. The meme lives in that gap, and won't go away.
  
  What do you think?
  

• re: Memes? Not necessarily...
  2001-04-05 09:03:22  Lucas Gonze [Reply | View]
  
  
  Malcolm -
  
  Some of these are just terms, but the others are real memes in the sense in which you mean them. For example, "separation of data and metadata" and "UDP as a substrate" have come up in many different forms. The persistence of their appeal, their resilience and ability to adapt, is exactly what makes them interesting, because of what it says about P2P as a whole.
  
  - Lucas
  

• Memes? Not necessarily...
  2001-04-03 22:19:20  malcolmdean1 [Reply | View]
  
  
  What I see here is a list of terms, most of which, while amusing and clever, will die. Memes are not terms. I believe they are better understood as beliefs, concepts, emotions, even physical behaviors. Memes must also show behaviors such as adaptation and transmission.