HI David: All I cut and pasted were your words and some urls,
shame you did not read the urls, :
YOU SAID:
AOL runs a HUGE network, connecting all of their POPs (Points of Presence, or RA servers). That network is run by ANS, a subsidiary of AOL. ANS is itself a backbone like the ones you cited, except that it's sole customer (I think) is AOL.
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You guessed at it ^^^^, but you got that part right on, the
only thing that's a little exuberant is the "HUGE"...
go back over there and find the url and look at Sprint..they furnish
more POPs than anyone else by a large margin. Were and how people
got the Idea AOL is such a big presence on the internet is beyond
me..AOL addreses make up only a tiny part of IRC users, not a lot
more in usenet..and I'v got a few frinds that do use it, but I just about give up sending them e-mail..heck by the time they can get on to check it, it's sometimes a week or more old , if not lost.<G>
How did you like the little dive the market took today ?
Made me glad I'm a hedger.
Jim |
