> > The first is that because of the nature of message queues, they're either empty or full.

> ... Wat?

I interpreted it as "they are either trending towards empty or full". The statement doesn't seem well thought through.

That might be true (either empty or full) most of the time (maybe) _if you squint_, but the entire point of the Message Queue is to provide buffering from the transient state (somewhere between empty and full) trending toward the empty state.