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> Instead I went with MQTT for the latest project that collected telemetry data ... If you want broadcast-message-to-topic-subscribers style semantics, you cou

> Instead I went with MQTT for the latest project that collected telemetry data ... If you want broadcast-message-to-topic-subscribers style semantics, you could have [ab]used IRC for this, rather than SMTP :-P

ReactiveJelly 4y ago
Pretty unreliable [1] though. I'd sooner build some custom HTTP thing in front of Postgres or SQLite than try to do resending over IRC, a protocol which badly suffers from a fuzzy separation between payload and protocol. [1] If you lose connection, neither side is sure which messages they missed, and replaying is not part of the protocol. If you're gonna support a memo bot, why not build it in?