Jeff Teitel <jeff at teitel.net> writes:

> Edgar Friendly wrote:
> 
> > As for changing this to try to take into account what the node
>  > percieves as its specialization, I will insist on the inherent
>  > wrongness of any such procedure and leave it at that.
> 
> I don't understand why this is inherently wrong.  I presume the
> "histogram of keys in the local datastore" available in the nodestatus
> servlet represents the specialization of keys on the local node.  Why
> not use it?
> 
And I assert that any presumptions the node makes about what other
nodes believe its specialization is are inherently flawed.

> > one could include the most popular data from your node, but BOTWFRW
> > (because of the way freenet routing works), that data is unlikely to
> > be requested of another random node.
> 
> 
> Which is why I suggested adding some sort of randomness to it.
> 
>               Jeff Teitel

Moving data around randomly will not help freenet.  There's just too
much data for it to even have a chance.

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