A poison message refers to a

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issue, where a client machine tries to send a message to the server and fails too many times (the actual amount of "too many" is variable). The behavior toward poison messages varies - they are either discarded, create a service request event, or initiate other failure indications. The term is used mainly in

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-related frameworks, like SQL Server or

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(WCF). RabbitMQ also has a notion of poisoned messages.

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