> I was wondering if there was more scope to make mischief at a distance > in a less less obvious way than before. there isn't but where were you when the blackhole community was passed? > So you rely on the nodes that receive these community strings to > interpret them in a common way. no. as with bgp communities since they were handed down to us by our mothers, unless specified in some other document, there is no assumption that all apply the same semantic to the same syntax. randy