Posted by Don M. on 02/27/06 08:17

"anthonyberet" <nospam@me.invalid> wrote in message news:46dennFaiun7U1@individual.net...
> anthonyberet wrote:
> > fred-bloggs wrote:
> >
> >> anthonyberet <nospam@me.invalid> wrote in news:464ajrF977u2U1
> >> @individual.net:
> >>
> >>
> >>> It just isn't so that more primaries is a purely good thing
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> Fine...one less
> >>
> > Yes - one less.
> > I recommend reading up on network topology - there are a few excellent
> > books about p2p history which discuss the problems encountered by
> > networks which spread their file listings too thinly.
> > I enjoyed this one, although some of the systems described have gone to
> > the wall, it does explain the technical hurdles in good detail:
> >
> >
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/059600110X/sr=8-3/qid=1140949572/ref=pd_bbs_3/103-3258483
-7148669?%5Fencoding=UTF8
> >
> >
> > This one is a bit more current, and more techie, but it lacks the
> > enjoyable polemic of the other:
> >
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1852338695/ref=pd_sim_b_2/103-3258483-7148669?%5Fencoding
=UTF8&v=glance&n=283155
> >
> Oh incidentally - I don't mean to seem smug by recommending those books
=========

Of course you didn't!!! :)~

> - they are genuinely enjoyable and useful and you are obviously
> interested in the subject so I think you will appreciate them.
> - Be aware that they don't make for very good pub-conversation though ;)

Nonsense! They are essential for very good pub-conversation: "come over to my place and
check my network topology", "some other time; I'm afraid I've been spreading my files too
thinly", "how about a bit more current?", "I enjoyed this one in good enjoyable detail",
etc, etc.
How could you even think otherwise?


Don


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