----- Original Message -----
From: "Mark J. Roberts" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, December 26, 2000 9:34 AM
Subject: Re: [Freenet-dev] Map files for FProxy
> On Tue, 26 Dec 2000, Timm Murray wrote:
>
> > While date rewriting is a pretty good kludge (as kludges go), I think it
> > will be harmful to routing over the long term. Take this simple
example:
> >
> > A-B-C-D-E-F
> >
> > E inserts such a document with htl 2 and sends it to D and D sends it to
C.
> > A is looking for that document, sends it to B, B sends it to C, finds
the
> > document and sends it back through the chain. Now both B and A have it.
> > Tommorow, E inserts the updated document, again to D and C. Now the
copy on
> > A and B is obsolete (and will eventualy drop out of its store) and A
will
> > have to get the new document by requesting again. Thus Freenet's
"routing
> > gets better over time" claim is undermined, as the routing only has one
day
> > to get better.
>
> The updated document would probably not go to node c, because node c is
> probably not the closest node to the new document. If you're basing your
> premise on that false assumption, you're wrong. Changing the date in the
> SSK changes the routing key.
Hmmm . . . I still think my example holds. The point is that the
date-updated document doesn't go to every node that had the last document in
the list, thus undermineing Freenet's routing.
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