When I signed up for outages I was really hoping for something like what Sean Donelan used to do for Nanog. He had an occupation where he knew about every major cable cut or issue and reported it to the Nanog mailing list. I really miss that level of outage knowledge that we used to see. I think that something like outages alert could work even with the current group. The issue is one of is it a real issue that affects a large enough group. For this I think the mailing list with the website could put in a voting idea. Using a footer in the message people could click that to vote and say this is a confirmed issue and select if it's minor or major and regional or larger impact. After a set number of votes hit then the system could send an email to outage-alerts which would be a much lower traffic but a much higher confidence list. That would allow outages to still discuss troubleshooting without imapct the blackberry and pager audience. I have always looked for a way to be alerted to outages but only one's that truly are an issue. Maybe this is one way to accomplish that ? Derrick ________________________________ From: outages-bounces@isotf.org on behalf of Jay R. Ashworth Sent: Tue 6/24/2008 2:29 PM To: outages@isotf.org Subject: Re: [outages] List comment On Tue, Jun 24, 2008 at 10:48:38AM -0700, Michael K. Smith - Adhost wrote:
I like your breakdown. How about a general consensus to preface subject lines with either "Outage" or "Discussion" until there is enough momentum to break the list into two?
That trick *never* works. People who are not interested in discussion -- and those who are, say, forwarding to a Blackberry -- should probably filter out messages whose subject lines include "[Rr][Ee]: ". Cheers, -- jra -- Jay R. Ashworth Baylink jra@baylink.com Designer The Things I Think RFC 2100 Ashworth & Associates http://baylink.pitas.com <http://baylink.pitas.com/> '87 e24 St Petersburg FL USA http://photo.imageinc.us <http://photo.imageinc.us/> +1 727 647 1274 Those who cast the vote decide nothing. Those who count the vote decide everything. -- (Joseph Stalin) _______________________________________________ outages mailing list outages@isotf.org https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/outages