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Shared Distributed Caching
  Posted on Monday July 31, @02:50AM Pacific
Infrastructure Eric Ries has presented a thought provoking idea on using FreeNet as a platform for a shared distributed caching system.

"When a site is Slashdotted, the information on it becomes harder to reach not because it has become scarce, but because it is being copied to thousands upon thousands of other machines. Shouldn't this make it easier to get instead of harder?

Read Eric's suggestions on how to turn this situation around at Freshmeat.net.

 
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