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revision 1.36 by tjl, Wed Oct 29 13:11:23 2003 UTC revision 1.37 by tjl, Thu Oct 30 08:41:50 2003 UTC
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 Abstract  
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 XXX  
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11  Introduction  Introduction
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439  - COUNTERARGUMENTS THAT NEED TO BE ADDRESSED:  - COUNTERARGUMENTS THAT NEED TO BE ADDRESSED:
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441      - efficiency? Storing lots of versions could get inefficient,      - efficiency? Storing lots of versions could get inefficient,
442        especially on the part of indexing the pointers in the system.        especially on the part of indexing the pointers in the system.
443        If there are 1000 000 000 or more pointer blocks of a single pointer,        If there are 1000 000 000 or more pointer blocks of a single pointer,
444        what part of the system fails, if any?        what part of the system fails, if any?
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446          - will be there only if someone *wants* to store those versions          - will be there only if someone *wants* to store those versions
447            unwanted versions get purged            unwanted versions get purged
448    
449      - spamming with new versions (only author due to DS, but still)      - spamming with new versions (only author due to DS, but still)
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451  - XXX  - XXX
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471  .. [#rtg-links] ``http://www.seds.org/spaceviews/cassini/rtgpages.html``.  .. [#rtg-links] ``http://www.seds.org/spaceviews/cassini/rtgpages.html``.
472     All links dereferenced on October 27th, 2003.     All links dereferenced on October 27th, 2003.
473    
474  .. [#academic-articles-can-use-hashlinking] A notable exception  .. [#academic-articles-hashlinking] A notable exception
475     may be academic articles, in which references to other articles     may be academic articles, in which references to other articles
476     are ideally to an immutable version, and in which references     are ideally to an immutable version, and in which references
477     are generally not circular, making this domain map neatly     are generally not circular, making this domain map neatly

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