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Re: Superfluous advertisement (was: Friday's Random Comment)

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Randy Bush)
Sat Apr 30 22:43:09 2016

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Date: Sun, 01 May 2016 11:43:01 +0900
From: Randy Bush <randy@psg.com>
To: Russ White <7riw77@gmail.com>
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>>    F
>>   / \
>>  D   E
>>  |   |
>>  B   C
>>   \ /
>>    A
>> 
>> Suppose A is a customer of B and C.
> 
> This is possible, but only remotely probable. In the real world, D and
> E are likely peered, as are B and C.

"likely?"  with what probability?  any measurement cite please.  nothing
exact; something rough would be fine.

randy

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