> Again, had you specified that ftp/sftp was used for real time communication, I would not have objected. (It would have been fine for the 90's though, and migh

> Again, had you specified that ftp/sftp was used for real time communication, I would not have objected. (It would have been fine for the 90's though, and might still be in use if it was completely stable.) Hahaha, I've seen enough of that sort of stuff that I immediately assumed the reason they objected wasn't the tech but because it was being grossly misused, kind of like trying to build a distributed lock-like-thing on top of S3 or any of a number of other sorts of atrocities you might see with more modern tech.