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P2P, or carrier pigeon.

>>> And there's still nothing you can do about a posting that never
>> arrives.
>>
>> *ONCE AGAIN*: There's par2, which is designed for precisely this
>> purpose.

Sorry, I looked up par2, but didn't see that it could provide redundancy in one
packet for info transmitted in a different packet.  How much space overhead
does this add?

> an easy fix for the common
> case is just serial number the updates; you may not know what you
> missed from the station, but at least you'll know you missed something

Yeah, but if your server doesn't have the missing posting, how can you get it?


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