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On Tue, Jun 07, 2005 at 06:40:10PM -0400, Dave Stewart wrote: > At 06:12 PM 6/7/2005, you wrote: > >If we started posting about every fiber cut of every carrier anywhere in > >North America every time it happened there wouldn't be any room left on > >this list for talking about spam, senderid, DNS RFCs, E911 for VoIP > >carriers, err... wait which side am I arguing again? :) > > I don't operate even a mid-size network, but when there's an outage that > effects more than a handful of locations, it's useful to know about it... > > Not that there's anything I can do about it... but when customers are > calling and asking why they can't reach their application servers, it's > nice to be able to tell them there's a problem at $location and that no, I > don't know when it'll be fixed, but they can be sure it's being worked on. > > But I think NANOG is certainly an appropriate forum for medium/large-scale > outages - unless someone's created an outage list someplace. >From down here, like Dave, at the relative bottom of the food chain, I must agree with him and Steve, though I do understand Richard's concerns there, and they're valid ones. The Internet needs a PA system. Problem is, the people who are equipped to talk, and, by and large, many of the people who want to listen, are all *here*. Cheers, -- jra -- Jay R. Ashworth [email protected] Designer +-Internetworking------+----------+ RFC 2100 Ashworth & Associates | Best Practices Wiki | | '87 e24 St Petersburg FL USA http://bestpractices.wikicities.com +1 727 647 1274 If you can read this... thank a system administrator. Or two. --me
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