Evil Pete says:
What is the point here? The MBONE isn't like usenet. Sessions aren't free. Personaly, I'd say that frivolous use of the mbone will alienate people.
just cause everyone does not have phone does not mean we shalt not use telephones.
just cause everyone does not have email does not mean we shalt not use email
You completely misunderstand. The MBONE is a very scarce resource at the moment. Setting up teleconferencing sessions that aren't, say, multicasting a conference (like, say, a Cypherpunks meeting) but are just being used to let people do what they do on mailing lists at 500,000 times the cost in network bandwidth isn't social.
Perry
Perry, I think you are not quite clear on how the MBone works. It uses the bases of broadcasting a session once which can be received by the many. Only a few of those many will get involved with the session in the since of retransmitting... There are some WWW sites that have alot of MBone info which you might check out. Urls: http://www.research.att.com/mbone-faq.html http://eitech.com/techinfo/mbone/mbone.html http://www.eit.com/techinfo/mbone/mbone.html http://info.arl.army.mil/ACIS/ACD/MBONE/index.html http://info.brl.mil/ACIS/ACD/MBONE/index.html http://www.gatech.edu/aimosaic/faculty/catrambone.html enjoy! -lile ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Lile Elam | "Remember... No matter where you go, there you are." lile@netcom.com | Un*x Admin / Artist | Buckaroo Banzai ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~