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		jacquesm on March 26, 2015 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: You Cannot Have Exactly-Once Delivery Time-outs are a band-aid that works in practice but formally speaking are not an improvement at all since for every packet sent due to the time-out you'd need another time-out.

jacques_chester on March 26, 2015 [–]

Thanks, looks like I'd misunderstood the theoretical finding.

Recursion is hard.

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