[udpheaders]

If there's a third party doing store and forward or even just forwarding traffic, it is not "p2p". At least, not as I understand what p2p means. So any service that purports to be peer-to-peer ("p2p") should be able to show you exactly how the data moves from one peer to another to prove that the system is truly peer-to-peer. And they should do that without asking. If they won't show you this, I would be very skeptical. "p2p" looks to be a potential "big data" style buzzword to sell stuff. I hope I'm wrong.

If it is being used this way, that's a shame. Because peer-to-peer is really a goal worth working toward. It's the way the internet was supposed to work.

[kunle]

Understood - our meaning is peer-to-peer from the user perspective (rather than as a networking standard). Definitely didn't intend to use this as a buzzword. The service we're providing is real-time and async messaging and the best way we went about doing that (best in this case meaning conforming to end user expectations, who want to be able to send messages to their friends who might be offline at any particular moment in time) is with a server based approach. Will adjust our copy to reflect that this isn't p2p from a network perspective.