Network Protocols

Sorry for the off-topic(ish) post.

I have created a mailing list for the discussion of network protocol design.

The purpose of this mailing list is to discuss designing any sort of network
protocol of any sort of purpose.

The results of discussion on the mailing list will eventually (or hopefully
quite soon) lead to the creation of some free APIs to make the implementation
of [insert type of network protocol that you need] childishly simple.

I have posted this message to this list, because you are a well-behaved bunch
of developers (I’m yet to see a flame on this list), and a while back quite
a few of you were interested in having a network protocol built into SDL.

The list is unmoderated, but this message will be the only public announcement
of the existance of the list, so the only new members on the list will be from
word-of-mouth.

If you wish to subscribe, send a blank(ish) message to
, and follow the orders that
the mlm gives you.–
– Michael Samuel

I have posted this message to this list, because you are a well-behaved bunch
of developers (I’m yet to see a flame on this list), and a while back quite
a few of you were interested in having a network protocol built into SDL.

How many developers are actually on this list? It’s hard to tell how
many people are lurking and how many people have unsubscribed.

See ya!
-Sam Lantinga (slouken at devolution.com)–
Author of Simple DirectMedia Layer -
http://www.devolution.com/~slouken/SDL/

How many developers are actually on this list? It’s hard to tell how
many people are lurking and how many people have unsubscribed.

There are actually quite a few lurkers on this list:

cliff:/var/qmail/alias# cat SDL/subscribers/* | null2newline | wc -l
60On Tue, Sep 15, 1998 at 06:45:51AM -0700, Sam Lantinga wrote:


– Michael Samuel