On Thu, May 06, 2010 at 01:24:00PM -0700, Mark Crispin wrote:
> Crapware assumes that it is a network issue that somehow is utterly
> irrecoverable in TCP, yet magically goes away if you tear down the TCP
> connection and establish a new one.
> 
hmmm ... why might they do such an obviously nonsensical thing ... wait,
maybe because it's how reality actually works? ever heard about
connection-tracking packet filters and routers? ill-tempered transparent
proxies? dial-up disconnects?

> Guess what happens when thousands of pieces of crapware are all doing
> the same thing at the same time.
>
funny, how establishing some reasonable common guidelines for handling
loss of state in the standard could alleviate these problems to a
significant degree. unfortunately, the creator doesn't even acknowledge
the problem. oh, well. tough luck, i guess.
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