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Re: Outage queries and notices (was Re: GBLX congestion in Dallas area

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Fergie (Paul Ferguson))
Wed Jun 8 14:32:44 2005

From: "Fergie (Paul Ferguson)" <fergdawg@netzero.net>
Date: Wed, 8 Jun 2005 18:30:50 GMT
To: jra@baylink.com
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu



What's the matter with simply using the mailing list?

Don't reinvent the wheel.

- ferg


-- "Jay R. Ashworth" <jra@baylink.com> wrote:


> >The Internet needs a PA system.
> 
> There is this sparsely deployed technology called multicast which would 
> work for this application.

Well, that's fine, at the transport layer, but I think more an
application layer solution is called for.

Something akin to news.announce.important on Usenet?


--
"Fergie", a.k.a. Paul Ferguson
 Engineering Architecture for the Internet
 fergdawg@netzero.net or fergdawg@sbcglobal.net
 ferg's tech blog: http://fergdawg.blogspot.com/

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