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Re: Outage queries and notices (was Re: GBLX congestion in Dallas area)

  • From: Jay R. Ashworth
  • Date: Wed Jun 08 16:41:13 2005

On Wed, Jun 08, 2005 at 02:35:42PM -0400, Hannigan, Martin wrote:
> > Well, that's fine, at the transport layer, but I think more an
> > application layer solution is called for.
> > 
> > Something akin to news.announce.important on Usenet?
> 
> How about [email protected]?

Oddly, that's my approach, yes.  The problem is threefold: robustness
and deployment (email tends to win, by and large), people listening,
and people talking.  NANOG, as a list, wins on both of the latter
points.

Cheers,
-- jra
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