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To: rhet0ric who wrote (8828)	3/15/1998 2:17:00 PM
From: jack rand	Respond to of 13594

The issue isn't 're-routing' per se, but operating mirror sites around the country (much as Prodigy did orginally when it was IBM). That's hugely expensive and complex -- as it requires synching of the sites. OTOH, it's more easily done with e-mail and with listserv. Many large ISPs have multiple mail and list servers to cover different parts of the country. Anyway, that AOL is just now finishing construction of a $400 million 3 football field sized data center in Virginia, suggests that it won't be going distributed anytime soon.