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Subject: Re: store msg recap 
Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2007 19:43:05 -0700
From: william@bourbon.usc.edu

Someone wrote:

  > I know you have asnwered this before but I just wanted
  > confirmation (yes/no)
  > 
  > When a user enters a store command, if the file cant be copied to
  > the permanent storage then the store msg isnt flooded even if
  > TTL>0.

Correct.  This is stated in item (6) of Summary of Basic Message
Types section.

  > A node getting a store msg forwards the store msg
  > probabilistically (by flipping a coin) for each neighbor (if TT
  > still > 0) even if it cant store the msg in its own cache.

Correct.
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Bill Cheng // bill.cheng@usc.edu <URL:http://merlot.usc.edu/william/usc/>