Edgar Friendly wrote:
> Andrew Rodland writes:
>
> >On Monday 09 December 2002 10:21 pm, The FLOG Index wrote:
> >
> >>transient node, if they participate in sneaker net their node will be
> >>full of all kinds of stuff they never requested.
> >
> The problem is that this isn't a good thing. Unless the network knows
> to look on your node for some content, or it's coincidentally next to
> some keyspace that your node is authoritative on, that content might
> as well not be in your store. This is the same problem with any kind
> of permenancy for datastores; if the references to the data don't
> correspond to where the data is, the data is useless.
I presume there is some algorithm other than date that a node uses to
determine what content to keep and what to discard when its datastore gets
full to allow specialization. (I'm sure there's a doc on the website
describing it, but freenetproject.org is so badly organized I couldn't find
it.) Couldn't this same algorithm be used for importing data from the cd?
Then the node would just be getting more of they type of data it already
specializes in.
When writing data to the cd it might be necessary to use some random factor
in addition to most recent date in order to get more generic data onto it.
That way there's more likely to data of interest to other nodes on it.
Jeff
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