Re: Early warning system

[Jeffrey Haas <jhaas () nexthop com>]

On Wed, Mar 21, 2001 at 09:56:46PM -0800, Sean Donelan wrote:
> The net has a system for relaying messages to thousands of systems in a
> few seconds.  People tweaked NNTP to forward messages almost instantly,
> across multiple links. NNTP is a tried, and well-known protocol. Multicast
> and other multi-user messaging systems also exist.

<speculating>
As seen in many households across California:
You have Mail!
<sound of everything in your house losing power...>

-- 
Jeff Haas 
NextHop Technologies