Re: hash classifier

[Kevin Fall <kfall@ee.lbl.gov>]

>
> From:  Lloyd Wood <eep1lw@surrey.ac.uk>
> To:    Kevin Fall <kfall@ee.lbl.gov>
> cc:    ns-users@mash.CS.Berkeley.EDU
> Subject: Re: hash classifier
> Date:  Wed, 29 Jul 1998 22:25:07 BST
>
> On Wed, 29 Jul 1998, Kevin Fall wrote:
> 
> > There should also be a description of hash classifiers in the
> > main documentation.  If the version you have lacks this info,
> > you should check tonight for the newer one.
> 
> The main documentation is regularly updated? How often?

well, somewhat regularly.  (we try but don't promise.)
> 
> I've been using a copy dated September 12th 1997 for the last few
> months, since:
> 
> http://www-mash.cs.berkeley.edu/ns/ns-documentation.html
> 
> clearly states:
> 
> 'this document very nearly describes ns as of the 2.0 release (10
> September 1997).'
> 
> Every so often I'd read that and check no further... and I've just
> downloaded a fresh copy from the server to discover that those docs
> are now at July 10th 1998, and 25 pages bigger as well.
> 
> Those of us outside the US aren't going to attempt large downloads
> without reason; with anonymous ftp we could at least check timestamps
> before downloading, but without that I've been relying on your
> webpages for version information. My mistake to be misled by your
> webpage... 

well, thanks for pointing it out.  I will update the page to suggest
that we do update it periodically.

> Announcing updates of the docs to these mailing lists would IMO be
> very useful for ns users.

yes, good idea.

- K