Jim Henderson wrote:
> Not really, a party line is many-to-many, 

Er, not really, no. A party line is one switch to many phones.

> The routers act as repeaters, but still operate a multicast "domain" (if 
> you will) within their local network, as long as there's a client that 
> has registered with the router to listen in on the multicast.

Yes, I know how it works. Now we're just arguing over analogies.

My point is that it's *not* like a radio broadcast. It's point-to-point 
between routers. The only place you're saving bandwidth is on subnets.

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Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
    Ada - the programming language trying to avoid
    you literally shooting yourself in the foot.

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