On Thu, Mar 13, 2003 at 04:52:08PM -0800, Ian Clarke wrote:
> The fact that one person tried to download it doesn't imply that anyone 
> else will
This is the entire principle behind caching, if you're not going to
accept this you have bigger problems.

>, and the fact that they couldn't download it implies that 
> nobody else will either
Not necessarily, it merely increases the probability. But in many
cases, just having everybody propagate what they can will mean in the
end everybody gets the file.

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