Received: from sog-mx-3.v43.ch3.sourceforge.com ([172.29.43.193] helo=mx.sourceforge.net) by sfs-ml-4.v29.ch3.sourceforge.com with esmtp (Exim 4.76) (envelope-from ) id 1VZsGM-0000jL-4b for bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net; Sat, 26 Oct 2013 01:01:58 +0000 Received-SPF: pass (sog-mx-3.v43.ch3.sourceforge.com: domain of me.com designates 17.172.220.236 as permitted sender) client-ip=17.172.220.236; envelope-from=jeanpaulkogelman@me.com; helo=st11p02mm-asmtp001.mac.com; Received: from st11p02mm-asmtp001.mac.com ([17.172.220.236]) by sog-mx-3.v43.ch3.sourceforge.com with esmtp (Exim 4.76) id 1VZsGL-0004ji-4i for bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net; Sat, 26 Oct 2013 01:01:57 +0000 Received: from st11p02mm-spool001.mac.com ([17.172.220.246]) by st11p02mm-asmtp001.mac.com (Oracle Communications Messaging Server 7u4-27.08(7.0.4.27.7) 64bit (built Aug 22 2013)) with ESMTP id <0MV900L3F473JU30@st11p02mm-asmtp001.mac.com> for bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net; Sat, 26 Oct 2013 01:01:51 +0000 (GMT) X-Proofpoint-Virus-Version: vendor=fsecure engine=2.50.10432:5.10.8794,1.0.431,0.0.0000 definitions=2013-10-26_01:2013-10-26, 2013-10-25, 1970-01-01 signatures=0 X-Proofpoint-Spam-Details: rule=notspam policy=default score=0 spamscore=0 suspectscore=0 phishscore=0 adultscore=0 bulkscore=0 classifier=spam adjust=0 reason=mlx scancount=1 engine=7.0.1-1308280000 definitions=main-1310250230 MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: multipart/alternative; boundary="Boundary_(ID_f2PgK4UK1fUkHuXE27bFuA)" Received: from localhost ([17.172.220.223]) by st11p02mm-spool001.mac.com (Oracle Communications Messaging Server 7u4-27.08(7.0.4.27.7) 64bit (built Aug 22 2013)) with ESMTP id <0MV9002KQ4738780@st11p02mm-spool001.mac.com>; Sat, 26 Oct 2013 01:01:51 +0000 (GMT) To: Gavin Andresen From: Jean-Paul Kogelman Date: Sat, 26 Oct 2013 01:01:49 +0000 (GMT) X-Mailer: iCloud MailClient1T.111546 MailServer1T X-Originating-IP: [159.153.138.53] Message-id: <274a1888-276c-4aa6-a818-68f548fbe0fa@me.com> In-reply-to: X-Spam-Score: -0.5 (/) X-Spam-Report: Spam Filtering performed by mx.sourceforge.net. See http://spamassassin.org/tag/ for more details. -1.5 SPF_CHECK_PASS SPF reports sender host as permitted sender for sender-domain -0.0 SPF_PASS SPF: sender matches SPF record 1.0 HTML_MESSAGE BODY: HTML included in message X-Headers-End: 1VZsGL-0004ji-4i Cc: Bitcoin Dev Subject: Re: [Bitcoin-development] Feedback requested: "reject" p2p message X-BeenThere: bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.9 Precedence: list List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 26 Oct 2013 01:01:58 -0000 --Boundary_(ID_f2PgK4UK1fUkHuXE27bFuA) Content-type: text/plain; CHARSET=US-ASCII; format=flowed Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Would it make sense to use either fixed length strings or maybe even enums? On Oct 25, 2013, at 05:34 PM, Gavin Andresen wrote: Mike Hearn has been lobbying for an "error" message in the Bitcoin p2p protocol for years (at least since the "ban peers if they send us garbage" denial-of-service mitigation code was pull-requested). This came up again with my proposed "smartfee" changes, which would drop low-priority or low-fee transactions. --Boundary_(ID_f2PgK4UK1fUkHuXE27bFuA) Content-type: multipart/related; boundary="Boundary_(ID_1zzGwr7TP2MT4hys7Yji7g)"; type="text/html" --Boundary_(ID_1zzGwr7TP2MT4hys7Yji7g) Content-type: text/html; CHARSET=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT

Would it make sense to use either fixed length strings or maybe even enums?

On Oct 25, 2013, at 05:34 PM, Gavin Andresen <gavinandresen@gmail.com> wrote:
Mike Hearn has been lobbying for an "error" message in the Bitcoin p2p protocol for years (at least since the "ban peers if they send us garbage" denial-of-service mitigation code was pull-requested). This came up again with my proposed "smartfee" changes, which would drop low-priority or low-fee transactions.
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