add a facility to stop the dispatcher
dispatcher thread is now created dynamically rather than being created automatically
handle the case where a static item does not have a value property
report the host and port when reporting a connection error
removed excessive logging in connection monitors
only execute state change messages for on_enter when the receiver receives the message
has work now gets reset when mail queue empties on a machine
changed a loop with a non-blocking recv to use poll()
attempt to die well