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

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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