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Give exampmles of link breakage, fix latency range, cite latency.


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--- echolot.tex	11 Mar 2006 14:26:04 -0000	1.2
+++ echolot.tex	11 Mar 2006 14:47:32 -0000	1.3
@@ -356,7 +356,7 @@
 This weighting based on past behavior was introduced to accurately
 report reliability of remailers that have vastly different latencies.
 There exist Mixmaster nodes which return pings within minutes of sending
-while others often take days to forward a message.
+while others often take many hours to forward a message~\cite{latencies}.
 
 In addition to reliability, Echolot also reports a node's latency.  The
 latency reported is simply the median of latencies of all pings received
@@ -365,9 +365,7 @@
 
 \paragraph{Chain-Pinging:} In addition to single-hop pings, Echolot also
 performs chain pinging to uncover cases where two remailers A and B
-perform well when tested individually but for obscure reasons (such as a
-network device error specific to the path between the two remailers),
-messages sent through A to B fail to arrive at their destinations.
+perform well when tested individually but for obscure reasons,\footnote{Some such broken chains have resulted from both hardware faults and configuration errors affecting the network path between the two remailers. Others have been due to misconfigurations in one or both of the systems' antispam measures. Most, though, are unexplained.} messages sent through A to B fail to arrive at their destinations.
 
 Since pinging every two-hop chain on a frequent basis would put an
 unnecessary load on the remailer network, Echolot contents itself with

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