\boldhead{2.3. Rumor Mongering with Dormant Death Certificates} The activation timestamp mechanism described above for anti-entropy works equally well if rumor mongering is used for distributing updates. Each death certificate is created as an active rumor. Eventually it propagates through the network and becomes inactive at all sites. Whenever a dormant death certificate encounters an obsolete data item at some site, the death certificate is activated by setting its activation timestamp to the current time. In addition, it is made an active rumor again. The normal rumor mongering mechanism then distributes the reactivated death certificate throughout the network. _ "tex" styleWordlist Mongering bf noindent timestamp J?JJJ