Reliable messaging

Mark Baker <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.web.services.ws-arch
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Thu, Aug 29, 2002 at 11:48:41AM -0700, Burdett, David wrote:
> I like your definitions,  however, they do not address what I think is the
> certainty that although you can be sure a message was received, you can
> never be absolutely sure that it was not.

How can you be sure that a message was received?  Because there's always
a chance that the response to a message doesn't make it, and leaves the
two parties out of synch (i.e. two army problem).

MB
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