I'm looking for good reading group for distributed systems. I've worked through a number of papers on my own and would like to work out some ideas with other folks who have an interest. I've read a little bit of Lynch, a bit more of Lamport and some of Chandra's work, as well as numerous slides, &c. * The impossibility results are sobering, but always leave a way out -- they make some assumption that one can dispense with in practice (for example, that processes start with different values). * The possibility results generally make untenable assumptions -- for example, that there is no link failure. I appreciate that this is not a matter of direct interest to the list, but I expect to find interested people here. -- _jsn