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

  • From: Michael.Dillon
  • Date: Thu Jun 09 05:38:23 2005 
> >The Internet needs a PA system.
> 
> There is this sparsely deployed technology called multicast which would 
> work for this application.

Note that the original poster did use multicast for his
query. He sent one copy to [email protected] where his
email was replicated and forwarded to multiple recipients
who had subscribed to that stream.

IP multicast is not the only way to do multicasting
on the Internet.

--Michael Dillon