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   Message 52,376 of 53,866   
   Grant Taylor to Janne Johansson   
   Re: RHML server and browser clients for    
   03 Aug 18 10:33:29   
   
   From: gtaylor@tnetconsulting.net   
      
   On 08/02/2018 03:30 PM, Janne Johansson wrote:   
   > Or ClearToSend (CTS) if you do 7-wire serial.   
      
   *nod*   
      
   > Yes, I think both 0 and 1 byte free at my end is a possible response   
   > to incoming packets when you have a hard time handling the incoming   
   > data stream.   
      
   :-)   
      
   > Telling the remote end you have only 1 byte left in the buffer is used   
   > for instance when tarpitting spam sending email servers, to force them   
   > to waste a lot of resources for every sent byte so that they are busy   
   > creating packets for an email your server wont accept instead of spamming   
   > others at that instance.   
      
   Yep.   
      
   Of course that does rely on them following the rules.  Something I've   
   learned not to rely on.  But it will make things less than graceful on   
   their end when the do try to break the rules.  But, hey, that's their   
   problem.  }:-)   
      
      
      
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