[Dev] Existing p2p systems for getting offline node back up to date?

[Ray Ryan]

On Wednesday, November 13, 2002, at 12:07  PM, Andy Hertzfeld wrote:

> Ray Ryan wrote:
>
>> If Spread doesn't support this kind of thing (catching up on messages 
>>  delivered while offline, or otherwise getting back in sync), what 
>> does?
>>
>> Ray
>
>       One simple answer is email.  I think we can use email for lots 
> of store-and-forward sharing purposes.  Emails with special headers 
> sent to other instances of Chandler wouldn't be presented as normal 
> email but instead be used as the store-and-forward part of the sharing 
> framework. You could even build a Groove-like, transaction-based relay 
> server out of simple email, so no special purpose servers are required 
> to be deployed.

What a cool idea.

What happens, though, when you check your e-mail with a non-Chandler 
client? That might get pretty annoying pretty quickly.

You're also assuming, I think, that each publisher is keeping a list of 
all interested subscribers. That seems like a shame.

Ray