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Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2008 21:58:11 -0700
From: Bill Cheng <william@bourbon.usc.edu>

Someone wrote:

  > When a non-beacon node receives a notify message from one of its
  > neighbors(who has been shutdown/autoshutdown), shud it permanently remove it
  > from its init_neighbor_list file ?

The init_neighbor_list is a write-once file.  Once it has
been created, the only thing you can do to it is to delete it.
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Bill Cheng // bill.cheng@usc.edu <URL:http://merlot.usc.edu/william/usc/>