On Thu, 2008-01-03 at 17:03 +1100, Brett Nash wrote:
> Splitting this, so hopefully we can pare the issues down quickly ;-)
> 
> > Another thing is that I feel that the difference list is a little bit 
> > underspecified. Are duplicate ids allowed in the difference list? Is there 
> > a 
> > limit to the list?
> 
> Limit to length:
> Size limit of messages... Needs to support continued lists in the
> strange case the list if too long.

The difference lists are retrieved in the same way other id sequences.
This means that a client is able to request them in chunks and is
already able to get lists which are effectively infinite long.

> Duplicates:
> Absolutely not.  Else it allows lists to contain thousands of duplicate
> entries.  List should be just the list of things that have changed.  

See my reasoning about this in the other email.

Tim 'Mithro' Ansell

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