Then again, if any of the clients crash or their connection hangs for some reason, no-one handles those \recent messages.
One process is designated to perform periodic cleanup, part of which is looking for messages that didn't get process via \recent.
And the system is 100% stable since it relies on \recent?
No, it was 100% stable because we didn't write shitty code.
Do you not implement APPEND in your server just because the power might get yanked out from under you during a disk write?
This discussion is getting absurd. It's possible to write a server that fully implements the specification. The proof is in their existence. For those out there who can't, quit whining and go off and do something you *can* do.
--lyndon
