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

["Fergie (Paul Ferguson)" <fergdawg () netzero net>]

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
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