On Wed, Dec 18, 2002 at 12:13:27PM +1100, fish wrote:
> 
> On Wed, 18 Dec 2002, Matthew Toseland wrote:
> 
> > If this is a problem, use FEC. Non-redundant splitfiles have a very
> > limited range of uses...
> 
> i agree everyone should use fec always.  but people are still
> inserting files with frost :-p.
:(. Then either somebody can fix frost, or somebody can reinsert the
files from frost. Really, if we slow down downloads just so that there
is some chance of a file surviving when nobody ever completes the
download, people will just cancel it more - the odds of the user
cancelling rise every second before the first byte arrives.

-- 
Matthew Toseland
toad at amphibian.dyndns.org
amphibian at users.sourceforge.net
Freenet/Coldstore open source hacker.
Employed full time by Freenet Project Inc. from 11/9/02 to 11/1/03
http://freenetproject.org/
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