[tahoe-dev] Tahoe-LAFS v1.8.1 release candidate ready for testing, plus: please tell me your story

[Kyle Markley]

> Also, I'm conducting an informal survey to learn how people are using
> Tahoe-LAFS in practice. If you have either deployed Tahoe-LAFS and
> relied on it for something or else attempted to do so and gave up, I
> would love to hear from you.

I'm using Tahoe-LAFS as a backup solution on my home network of
mixed-architecture machines (WinXP-32, WinVista-32, Win7-64, OpenBSD-64). 
Tahoe-LAFS is one of very few backup applications that is interoperable
across Windows and OpenBSD.  (I was a former user of the allmydata.com
commercial grid before it shut down.)

I have also recently used the Tahoe-LAFS pubgrid to transfer (encrypted
.zip) files to a mortgage broker in preparation for buying a house.  The
broker's e-mail system disallowed large incoming file attachments, but I
needed to send him scanned documents.  I put the files on the pubgrid, sent
him the read-only URL, and he had no problem getting the files.  (I have no
idea what his other clients do.)  Please don't remove the public web
gateway.  :)

-- 
Kyle Markley