[Outages-discussion] [outages] PINCH Re: Slack Outage?

[Jay R. Ashworth]

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Scott Whyte" <swhyte at gmail.com>
> To: outages-discussion at outages.org
> Sent: Monday, May 21, 2018 5:23:54 PM
> Subject: Re: [Outages-discussion] [outages] PINCH Re: Slack Outage?

> On 5/21/18 1:39 PM, Jay R. Ashworth via Outages wrote:
>> One meetoo in each direction, folks; this thread's gotten out of hand.
>>
>> Slack is only barely on-topic for the list anyway.

> Explain that a bit more please?  From the about page
> "outages-reporting that would apply to failures of major communications
> infrastructure components having significant traffic-carrying capacity,"

Slack being an end-user service, it's on-topicness falls under "eyeball services
that our audience is likely to get lots of reports about" -- with a couple
extra points because lots of the people on the list probably use it themselves.

> surely this applies more to slack than some voice service with 100
> people on it.
>> Please remember, many list members have the main list on Loud Notify.
> 
> You know, its 2018.  If people don't know how to apply filters and event
> correlation, maybe they should consider a different field.

I dunno; I've had a lot of trouble getting procmail to run on my Android 
phone.  :-)

Cheers,
-- jra
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