On 11/19/2011 06:19 AM, Dave Hart wrote:
On Sat, Nov 19, 2011 at 11:48, Johnson, Robert P. <Robert_Johnson2@medco.com> wrote:
I think this might have just been a quick question due to an issue they were addressing. Probably busy t-shooting and just wanted to get it out there, just in case others were having a problem. At any given moment, I guarantee you someone somewhere is seeing internet connectivity problems. If they all posted to outages with similarly vague reports, the signal/noise ratio would be so low, no one would read it. I'm asking medco.com and everyone else who is tempted to ask, in effect, "is anyone else seeing any problems anywhere on any carriers?" to provide enough detail to localize the problem to specific carrier(s) and specific locations (endpoints or apparent trouble spots from traces), or just keep quiet respecting the need for signal amongst the noise.
I'm willing to hear I'm asking too much, from the list owner, or others sufficiently clued to have provided useful details when they post here about new issues. Not so much from coworkers of people reporting problems here lacking key details and soliciting responses likely to be similarly devoid of useful details, as they're the ones dragging down the signal:noise ratio here, which is already low and seems to be getting worse.
Thanks for your understanding, Dave Hart
Agreed. If you have time to post a message you have time to do a quick mtr/traceroute or at least give some further information on what issues are being seen. "The Internet is broken!" is for my mom using her cable modem not people posting on this list. Joseph