Re: A modest proposal -- We need a patch penguin

Stuart Young
2002-01-30T01:36:34Z

At 03:59 PM 29/01/02 -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
>Basically, you should always consider email to me to be a unreliable
>medium, with no explicit congestion control. So think of an email like a
>TCP packet, with exponential backoff - except the times are different (in
>TCP, the initial timeout is three seconds, and the max timeout is 2
>minutes. In "Linus-lossy-network" it makes sense to use different
>default and maximum values ;)

Actually it's more like UDP. *grin* Least with TCP we get an ACK that the
connection is accepted, and some sort of status is kept. Not so sure we
have that with you all the time.

But hey, lots of things run over UDP, just a matter of making sure everyone
realizes it's not a guaranteed medium really, isn't it?

Stuart Young - sgy@amc.com.au
(aka Cefiar) - cefiar1@optushome.com.au

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