Re: [freenet-devl] Increasing default request HTL to 100

[Oskar Sandberg]

On Sat, Jun 16, 2001 at 02:26:44PM -0700, Ian Clarke wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 14, 2001 at 11:30:57AM +0200, Oskar Sandberg wrote:
> > No. Messages get lost, and the amount of time before we know something
> > is wrong depends on the HTL of the message.
> 
> Yes but the current choice of relationship between the time anticipated
> for retrieval of a particular message and the HTL is arbitrary.  We know
> that the network retrieves information in logarithmic time, but our
> decisions as for when to decrement the HTL, and by how much, were
> arbitrary.  

Umm, what? I don't have a clue what you mean by the above paragraph
(seriously).

> > I consider doing this tantamount to giving up...
> 
> Don't be so alarmist.

I'm not - I'm saying it as it is. 


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