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

["Jay R. Ashworth" <jra () baylink com>]

On Wed, Jun 08, 2005 at 09:22:02PM +0300, Petri Helenius wrote:
> Jay R. Ashworth 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?

Cheers,
-- jra
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