[Outages-discussion] Mod: Clarification on Scope

[Jeremy Charles]

When we're talking about national or international carriers, a "me too" on the mailing list from an additional major telecom region is helpful to understand the scope/reach of the problem.  If I know that $carrier has a far-reaching outage, it may explain why I lost connectivity to a bunch of my customers around the same time.  That'll decrease the amount of time I waste looking at my own equipment.

If one is posting on the list, they really should have enough of an understanding to realize that a "me too" from southern Wisconsin on a major carrier meltdown in Chicago isn't helpful, but a "me too" from Minneapolis or Atlanta is very meaningful.

IMHO, the original poster should wait more than "a few days" to understand the longer-term behavior of the community before raising a stink about it.

Recall the old adage:  Be liberal in what you accept, conservative in what you send.


-----Original Message-----
From: Outages-discussion [mailto:outages-discussion-bounces at outages.org] On Behalf Of Eric Tykwinski
Sent: Thursday, March 9, 2017 6:26 PM
To: Jay Ashworth <jra at baylink.com>
Cc: outages-discussion at outages.org
Subject: Re: [Outages-discussion] Mod: Clarification on Scope

One thing I can add, with reply defaulting to sender, it’s at least a conscience effort imho.
So I tend to "me too" but at least only to sender, which I think is appropriate.