# Elixir Blog Posts

**URL:** <https://forum.elixirforum.com/t/elixir-blog-posts/150>\
**Category:** Blog Posts\
**Tags:** blog-posts, wiki, stickies, official-blog-posts-thread\
**Created:** [April 30, 2017, 11:00pm UTC](https://forum.elixirforum.com/t/elixir-blog-posts/150 "2017-04-30T23:00:00Z")\
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The problem with those timeouts (in my use case) is that any message to the GenServer will cancel them. However, in my use case we wanted our timer to slide or timeout based on messages from a specific process.

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