On Fri, Mar 14, 2003 at 01:48:51AM +0100, Frank v Waveren wrote: > On Wed, Mar 12, 2003 at 04:05:07PM -0800, Ian Clarke wrote: > > Well, it is only a service if they are propogating a file that many > > people want, but can't get, as opposed to propogating a file that nobody > > wants and thus should be left to die. > I'd say the fact that people are trying to download it implies they > want it.
The fact that one person tried to download it doesn't imply that anyone else will, and the fact that they couldn't download it implies that nobody else will either - so why burden the network trying to keep it alive when it is probably already dead? Ian. -- Ian Clarke ian at locut.us Coordinator, The Freenet Project http://freenetproject.org/ Founder, Locutus http://locut.us/ Personal Homepage http://locut.us/ian/ -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 232 bytes Desc: not available URL: <https://emu.freenetproject.org/pipermail/devl/attachments/20030313/217a1cc5/attachment.pgp>
