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

[Michael.Dillon () btradianz com]

> > 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 nanog () merit edu 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