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It vastly reduces the chance of you receiving a packet that contains no new information. If you just rebroadcast the same packets over and over again, a receive
by staticfloat 8y ago
It vastly reduces the chance of you receiving a packet that contains no new information. If you just rebroadcast the same packets over and over again, a receiver that has 999/1000 packets may have a very low chance of serendipitously receiving the packet they need.