[tahoe-dev] public backup grid

[green]

The tahoe-lafs package just appeared in Debian repositories.  This looks 
quite interesting!

In the past I have looked for (and failed to find) a solution for a volunteer 
grid/cloud approach to backups, where I make say 1TB of space available for 
grid use and am then permitted to use a certain fraction of that for my own 
backups.  Basically just the thing tahoe-lafs is designed for.

Okay, so searching for actual grid backup implementations, I find these:
http://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/tahoe-lafs/wiki/VolunteerGrid
http://bigpig.org/

Two great ideas, but maximum 20 servers for each.  Only one mentions a 
mailing list, and subscription is moderated and archives are private.  Why 
the secrecy, and why the limit?  If a grid is better with fewer members, why 
can a project not have multiple grids?
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