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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>This one is pretty good:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><a href="http://downrightnow.com/netflix">http://downrightnow.com/netflix</a><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>-- <br>Patrick Shoemaker<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> outages-discussion-bounces@outages.org [mailto:outages-discussion-bounces@outages.org] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Bino Gopal<br><b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, August 17, 2011 14:12<br><b>To:</b> outages-discussion<br><b>Subject:</b> [Outages-discussion] Idea to help with the S/N on outages...<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>So the recent Netflix thread just got me thinking…why hasn’t someone (or have they, in which case they should publicize it more and spread the word and it should be mentioned in response to the “noisy” posts), set up real-time monitoring of these “popular” services like Netflix, Facebook, from multiple different locations so that people can go there and check it first before posting here?<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>I mean there is <a href="http://www.downforeveryoneorjustme.com/">http://www.downforeveryoneorjustme.com/#</a> but I’m not sure how robust it is and where it checks from exactly (and it provides no way to get detail on what it checks and how it checks-basically there’s nothing showing its work) so I’m not sure how much it can be trusted… Something like that but with a lot more detail would be cool…it could even be locked with a login for people on the list if we wanted to keep it low traffic (for whatever reason).<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><br>Maybe this has been brought up before (didn’t see it in any of the recent discussion archives tho), but it seems like one of the easier solutions to the S/N ratio problem…just two cents tho. ;)<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'> BINO<o:p></o:p></p></div></body></html>