[Doc] State the Listen Stream Delivery Semantics - #552
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The Subscriptions page documented the acknowledgement-first contract but not what delivery means:
the stream carries only changes that happen after the acknowledgement, nothing is queued while
no stream is connected, and a dropped stream is gone together with anything it missed.
The Python SDK's subscriptions page states the same contract ("It is not a replay log").
Spelling it out gives client implementers the fetch-after-subscribing guidance and
makes the acknowledgement-window behavior explicit.
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The Subscriptions page documented the acknowledgement-first contract but not what delivery means: the stream carries only changes that happen after the acknowledgement, nothing is queued while no stream is connected, and a dropped stream is gone together with anything it missed. The Python SDK's subscriptions page states the same contract ("It is not a replay log"). Spelling it out gives client implementers the fetch-after-subscribing guidance and makes the acknowledgement-window behavior explicit.
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