I like it - be careful, Jay - you are close to making sense Aaron D. Osgood Streamline Solutions L.L.C P.O. Box 6115 Falmouth, ME 04105 TEL: 207-781-5561 FAX: 207-781-8067 MOBILE: 207-831-5829 PAGE: 2078315829@vtext.com AOLIM: OzCom1 ICQ: 206889374 AOsgood@Streamline-Solutions.net Blog: http://streamlinesolutionsllc.blogspot.com/ http://www.streamline-solutions.net http://www.WMDaWARe.com Introducing Efficiency to Business since 1986. -----Original Message----- From: outages-bounces@isotf.org [mailto:outages-bounces@isotf.org] On Behalf Of Jay R. Ashworth Sent: Tuesday, June 24, 2008 4:32 PM To: outages@isotf.org Subject: Re: [outages] List comment On Tue, Jun 24, 2008 at 11:25:24AM -0700, virendra rode // wrote:
Now if providers could be little more forthcoming and start reporting their maintenance and outages then sure I can see those alerts being filtered into something like 'outages-alerts' but until that happens I think we may need to feel the list further.
That trick never works *either*. I suspect what we're going to have to do is set up an outage-notify list, with a companion -post (as nanog does), and let people volunteer to summarize from the discussion list to -notify once some actual facts have been gleaned from the discussions. So, for last week, we might have seen Service: AIM Problem: Clients won't connect Scope: Nationwide Since: 1015 Reporter: jra@baylink.com Confirmed: 12 users Official? No Service: AIM Problem: Netsplit Scope: Certain servers; correlation unclear Since: 1015 Reporter: up@3.am Confirmed: 6 users Official? No Service: L3 transport USA:NE Problem: Routing loop; link backhoed Scope: AS 18467 Since: 1330 Reporter: somebody@somewhere.com Confirmed: L3 ticket 772893-338 Official? Yes each in an email from whomever did the summary. Would this serve? Cheers, -- jra -- Jay R. Ashworth Baylink jra@baylink.com Designer The Things I Think RFC 2100 Ashworth & Associates http://baylink.pitas.com '87 e24 St Petersburg FL USA 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