> It seems you're trying very hard to contrive a situation where doing nothing is better than taking reasonable steps to counter occasional network hiccups. I

> It seems you're trying very hard to contrive a situation where doing nothing is better than taking reasonable steps to counter occasional network hiccups. I think you've completely misunderstood me then. I haven't taken a stance at all on what should be done. I'm only trying to agree with the grandparent poster about logging ultimately reflecting CAP Theorem.