Re: VatTP and Waterken protocols compared

"Tyler Close" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.lang.e.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Sun, Sep 21, 2008 at 12:29 PM, Ben Laurie <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 19, 2008 at 5:54 PM, Bill Frantz <[email protected]> wrote:
>> (2) In the Waterken system, a message which causes a serious
>> program failure (e.g. running out of space in the current
>> implementation) will be repeated, possibly causing that failure
>> over and over, until someone repairs the offending program.
>
> Also, an evil recipient can stall the sender by never processing messages.

The sender has an independent message queue for each recipient host,
so an evil recipient can only stall its own reception of messages.
Other recipients are not affected.

--Tyler
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