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[Julian Edwards <julian.edwards@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Friday 24 September 2010 14:27:38 Aaron Bentley wrote:
> Informative messages ("this branch tip has
> changed") don't imply that the sender expects any particular
> consequence, and are multicast-- all interested workers should consume
> the message.

FWIW, I think this kind of functionality is super useful.

I used to work on project that had a custom-built database that issued 
multicast messages whenever a row changed.  While that's overkill for our 
usage, being able to inform interested parties of various changes makes life 
*incredibly* easier when you need to pipeline things.