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Explain why a repeater may not answer a scope request - #22

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Corrects the Scope Discovery description (scopes are the named regions a repeater forwards flood traffic for) and adds why a repeater can stay silent: its firmware answers at most 4 anonymous requests every 3 minutes, shared by everyone asking, the longer answer can be lost at the edge of range, and repeaters older than 1.12.0 ignore the request. Unanswered repeaters are asked again later.

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