in reply to Re: How long does a node live?
in thread How long does a node live?

In fact, even nodes that are nuked leave entries in the database, where they can be refered to only by gods. There are some very early nodes, I think, that are completely lost, due to database corruption, but I certianly hope that won't happen again.

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