On 2008-05-20, Lu Vo <luvanvo@gmail.com> wrote:
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> group "MCI" {
>     remote-as $mci_as
>     set community 701:120
> }

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> None of the upstream providers (MCI and Allstream) claim they see the
> community strings set by me.  Is this not the correct way of setting
> community attribute ?

see bgpd.conf(5) - in neighbours/groups, "Set parameters are applied
to the RECEIVED prefixes" (my highlighting).

You are looking for something like "match to <...> set <...>"