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North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: Phone networks struggle in Hurricane Katrina's wake
You get high marks for your crumudgeon level. However, if I have to point it out and lead you to it like a child, then so be it. If I was mistaken in thinking that the referenced article: "Red Cross looks to IT for post-Katrina recovery" http://www.computerworld.com/securitytopics/security/recovery/story/0,10801,104250,00.html ..would perhaps elicit some operational suggestions from the peanut gallery on how to perhaps assist in this effort, or prhaps contribute to the BellSouth issues, etc., then mea culpa. Sniping certainly accomplishes nothing. - ferg -- Richard A Steenbergen <[email protected]> wrote: On Wed, Aug 31, 2005 at 01:22:13AM +0000, Fergie (Paul Ferguson) wrote: > > I'll file that comment where it belongs -- in file 13. > > If a major catastrophe, albeit more human than network-related > (although lots of network-related issues here, too), isn't on-topic, > than I fail to see what is. North American Network Operations perhaps? Talking about the impact to networks is on-topic, talking about steps being taken to protect or restore networks is on-topic, talking about networking infrastructure as it relates to the public communications infrastructure is on-topic during an event like this. Replying to idiotic slashdot articles asking really stupid questions is not on topic. Telling the entire NANOG reader base that you like your POTS line and will never switch to VoIP is not on topic. Technically speaking a human tragedy isn't even on topic. Like I said, it might be different if there was some actual insight being provided here. If someone was talking about some specific data relating to the reliability of the infrastructure or otherwise something OPERATIONAL to talk about that would be one thing, but this is not operational, this is simply chatter. Chatter has its place, that is why people read Slashdot and watch the news, but replacing an operational mailing list with the slashdot commentary section and seeing what happens is not my or anyone else's idea of a good time. -- Richard A Steenbergen <[email protected]> http://www.e-gerbil.net/ras GPG Key ID: 0xF8B12CBC (7535 7F59 8204 ED1F CC1C 53AF 4C41 5ECA F8B1 2CBC) -- "Fergie", a.k.a. Paul Ferguson Engineering Architecture for the Internet [email protected] or [email protected] ferg's tech blog: http://fergdawg.blogspot.com/
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