message processing/threads

[Jonathan Curran]

I've been thinking about this for a bit and wanted some input as to the design 
of it. The problem is as such:

I need a program running in the background to process messages (FIFO order) 
which I would send using soap/xmlrpc/pyro (haven't decided yet). According to 
my thinking I would need to make this a threaded application. One thread to 
process the messages and the other thread(s) would be used to listen for 
messages and insert it into the message queue.

Is my thinking correct? Is there a better way to do such a thing?

Thanks for any input,

- Jonathan