----- Original Message -----
From: "Benjamin Coates" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, December 26, 2000 7:25 PM
Subject: RE: [Freenet-dev] Map files for FProxy
> >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A and B is obsolete (and will eventualy drop out of its store) and A will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.
I know theres nothing we can do about it for this scheme. Thats why we need
real updating eventualy.
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