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Wow, marketing fail.

Epidemic information distribution was the center piece of the paper "Epidemic information dissemination in distributed systems" and highlighted in Gossip[1].

Marketing words that have a better connotation for this might be 'discovery' or 'enlightment' or 'intuition', even 'gossip', even though it is often a scourge in middle school, has a better reception than 'plague'.

[1] http://phdopen.mimuw.edu.pl/lato08/notes-1.pdf




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