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On Wed, 8 Nov 2000, Torsten Blum wrote:

> I work for a major ISP in Germany and I can count the number of customers
> asking for multicast uplink on one hand. Heck, even the number of multicast
> enabled ISPs could probably be counted with one hand.

I think, thats one of the reasons, why nobody uses mcast. Just because
they can't *rely*, that their customers have it.

And ISP's are guilty >:-)

-- 
Tom




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