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Re: selective prepends...one more time

  • From: Iljitsch van Beijnum
  • Date: Mon Sep 30 18:22:58 2002

On Mon, 30 Sep 2002, Leo Bicknell wrote:

> I'd like to ask a slightly different question.  At the providers
> who do support this feature, how many of your customers actually
> use it?

I can tell you that since this weekend Telia has one more customer using a
selective prepend. I'm glad they offer this feature since there wasn't
really any other way to avoid a congested path.

> The last time I asked a couple of people this question in private
> the answer was generally a number of customers that could be counted
> on one hand, even at some quite large providers.

I think most customers don't know how this works. Maybe someone should
write a book that explains this kind of stuff...

Iljitsch