[42556] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: What Worked - What Didn't
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Miles Fidelman)
Mon Sep 17 20:00:23 2001
Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2001 13:46:01 -0400 (EDT)
From: Miles Fidelman <mfidelman@civicnet.org>
To: Daniel Golding <dgolding@sockeye.com>
Cc: tme@21rst-century.com, Sean Donelan <sean@donelan.com>,
nanog@merit.edu
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On Mon, 17 Sep 2001, Daniel Golding wrote:
> 1) The Internet, as currently constituted makes a lousy news propagation
> method, for large audiences. The one to many model in unicast IP puts too
> large of a load on the source. Good multicast (which we don't have yet) may
one comment on this: email-based news seemed to work VERY well - both very
focused news (such as operational material on nanog), and more general
news (I found CNNs "breaking news" email list to be very informative - in
fact, I first heard about the initial airliner crash via that list)
Miles
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