On Thu, 20 Jul 2006, Norman Gray wrote:
> My impression was that the Plastic ideal was that applications would
> listen out for broadcast -- that is, generic -- messages, and if they
> got a message they could do something with, they would do it (is this
> completely wrong?). That means you either make the message specific
returning to this one briefly - that was how it was originally
envisaged to work. But in practice, it seems most of the time
you actually want to select a single application to send a given
message to rather than broadcast it to anyone who's listening.
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