On Tue, Dec 26, 2000 at 08:25:30PM -0500, Benjamin Coates wrote:
> >From "Timm Murray" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> >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A and B is obsolete (and will eventualy drop out of its store) and A will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.
> >
>
> But the only data that gets updated daily (or whateverly) is of trivial size;
> it's a redirect to a CHK or a very small document. If the content itself
> doesn't change, the cacheing effect will still work on the actual content.
>
> If the content itself does change, there's nothing we can do about it, you
> just have to fetch a new copy.
Also, if only a page such as a main page is updated each day, then
there is even less updating. The link to each subpage in this case
would just be changed to new versions of each subpage whenever they
have to be updated. This would even further strengthen routing
optimization while still having updating.
--
Travis Bemann
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