Comment by mlyle
No, considering something at the end of a fault-free channel as the element of the distributed system being delivered to is silly.
> we are engaged
We are no longer engaged, because I've given up on talking to you. You can use "delivered" however you like by yourself, as you're eliminating everyone else's desire to listen to you.
I think it's ridiculous that you're back to continue to poke this a day later.
Find a hobby. Or read a textbook. I suggest Steen and Tanenbaum, which explains exactly-once semantics in distributed systems in a careful and thorough way (though this particular book doesn't say "delivery", unlike many others.
> considering something at the end of a fault-free channel as the element of the distributed system being delivered to is silly.
That may be, but that's a different discussion. "Silly" and "impossible" are not synonyms.
Once you concede that you are wrong about EOD being impossible we can go on to discuss whether or not it is silly. And note that all I have to do to show that it isn't silly is to present one realistic scenario where it might be useful.
> I've given up on talking to you.
Manifestly not.