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To: ToySoldier who wrote (28430)	10/5/1999 12:35:00 AM
From: ToySoldier	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 42771

WOW!!! What happened to all on the board? No one has given me a real good reason why the stock plumetted today. I had one reason but I know it wasnt true - I didnt invest in the stock (that normally kills a stock). But maybe it was because I was thinking of it. Toy

To: ToySoldier who wrote (28430)	10/5/1999 11:40:00 AM
From: Scott C. Lemon	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 42771

Hello ToySoldier, > Being an @home user for 1 year now and knowing a lot of fellow > @home users, I know that a good number of us users do not use their > cache (at least the Shaw component of @HOME). They had sooo many > problems with the Caching software that I was better performance > by-passing the cache. Yep ... it actually is a combination problem. More that web designers don't tend to write "cache-friendly" pages ... and so the caches have to deal with all sorts of exceptions ... Both @Home and AOL acknowledged this issue ... and they have found a solution ... ;-) > Maybe they have corrected their problems but I have not gone back. > And the silly thing is that they dont force Transparent Caching on > us users either (beyond me). Well ... yes and no. What they have done is to start selectively implementing transparent redirection, but only on sites that they know are cache friendly. So the cache-friendly sites get "priority" treatment ... those that are not so cache-friendly are going to be "demoted" in priority and performance. ;-) Obviously they also reverse proxy their own sites and their customers web pages ... > So unless the other participants of @home do it differently, I dont > think @home uses their caching technology to the level they could. After extensive conversations with them, and talking with them about the "partner web sites" I believe that they use it much more extensively than you think! ;-) We talked about the log processing procedures that are followed to allow them to get an idea of which sites are most popular with their customer base so that they can initiate the caching of those sites. It's a very manual process right now ... Scott C. Lemon