Sat, 14 Nov 1998 11:35:57 -0500
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|In the early days of the internet, peering made much more sense that it
|does today. Until fairly recently, there was something like one 56kb
|(or mabe a T-1) channel from north america to europe, and similarly
|from NA to Japan & asia. And lets not talk about Australia. With that
|type of connectivity. it made a lot of sense for the US & Europe to send
|one copy of a post that would be exploded at the far end.
The more things change, the more they stay the same: the MBONE uses a
form of peering for multicast audio/video.
I'm glad to see that the rest of the Internet has caught up to LISTSERV(R) ;-)
/Pete Weiss
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