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Nigel, thank you for the great response.  I really appreciate it.  I'd be glad to share my app details and see what you think.

At its core the app is essentially a peer-to-peer file-sharing application.  A user can add other users as friends/co-workers and pull files off their machines.  AFCS would be used for:

(1) Letting a user know when his/her friends have logged into the service.

(2) Providing details about the files the user's friends have made available.  If a friend adds/removes/renames a file, the user needs to know about it.

(3) Providing a means for swapping stratus ids.

That's pretty much it.  The actual file transfer will be done p2p using Stratus.

The nice thing about using AFCS is the push strategy.  The app doesn't have to continually poll the server for new info.

What ideas does that bring to mind?  I can't figure out how one user would know if one of his/her friends is connected to the service unless everyone is in the same room and the user is analyzing each new user that connects to see if he/she is a friend.

Thanks for any guidance.

Aaron