Posted by anthonyberet on 02/27/06 13:11

Don M. wrote:
> "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!!! :)~
>
of course I 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?
>
haha - no seriously - as one gets into this in any detail one becomes
sort of terrible.
Have you ever tried explaining how Bittorrent works (and why it is good
that it works) to a non-p2p type of person?

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