[Bug 3730] users dropped with no feedback

[Mark Ramm]

Public bug report changed:
https://launchpad.net/malone/bugs/3730

Comment:
> Comment:
> This is the behaviour of TCP. When the protocol layers notices that the
> corresponding host is down, it will terminate the connection on the
> server side and the others will notice. There is currently no
> possibility to check an open connection, but perhaps we'll include keep-
> alives in 0.4.0.

I understand, but keep-alives, heartbeats, or something ought to be
used to provide a user with feedback that his work is no-longer being
shared.   Especially since there's no way to rejoin the connection
without losing that work.

--Mark