On Sat, 12 May 2001 10:22:06 -0400, George Woltman wrote:
>Why did this affect the server's counts? Well, that's a long story. It has to
>do with design decisions (compromises actually) made at Primenet's inception.
>Primenet's database is a subset of the master database which I maintain
>3000 miles away from the server. In an ideal world there would only be one
>database maintained by the server and all database maintenance (like
>triple-checks) would be handled automatically.
As it stands, I notice that PrimeNet is given assignments only a few
tens of thousand of exponents in advance. Is this done so that you
have more flexibility, or is it a technical issue with the number of
exponents the server can handle?
Nathan
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