[outages] Fwd: [Outages-announce] Outages and posting on different types of services

[Josh Luthman]

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From: Josh Luthman <josh at imaginenetworksllc.com>
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 2009 09:04:04 -0500
Subject: Re: [outages] [Outages-announce] Outages and posting on
different types of services
To: Chris Burwell <cburwell at gmail.com>

Minimal traffic here.  One list is best.

On 11/19/09, Chris Burwell <cburwell at gmail.com> wrote:
> I think that is a good idea, however, personally I preferr one list
> for all outages. For the most part I have not seen an outages for game
> servers, and things that are not really business related (at least for
> me). It's helpful to see/hear about localized carrier outages as well
> as larger outages all in one spot.
>
> Just my $0.02!
>
> - Chris
>
> On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 1:55 AM, Gadi Evron <ge at linuxbox.org> wrote:
>> Justin Shore wrote:
>>>
>>> Gadi Evron wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Perhaps outages@ has matured enough for some guidelines to be written?
>>>
>>> That's certainly a possibility.  Perhaps there should be different
>>> outages
>>> lists for different types of outages.  That could be a good way to
>>> maintain
>>> the integrity of the original Outages list, keeping the fluff off that
>>> list
>>> but still make it available on other lists.
>>>
>>> When I think of the Outages list I think of outages to major components
>>> of
>>> the Internet infrastructure such as IXPs, DNS root servers, major carrier
>>> failures, etc.  I would expand that to cover major data center, carrier
>>> hotel, wire center/CO hits too.  That's what I expect to see on the
>>> current
>>> Outages list.  I suppose there could be an outages list for other things
>>> though such as gaming servers/services (major ones like what the gaming
>>> companies themselves host such as WoW); major website outages such as
>>> Google, CNN or Facebook; application outages such as instant messaging,
>>> Vonage, Google Voice, etc.  Those would be good candidates for new outage
>>> lists.  Letting this kind of stuff on Outages would be like turning NANOG
>>> into a general tech support list; not a good thing.
>>>
>>> It's a thought.
>>>  Justin
>>
>> Just changing the subject so folks can participate in this discussion.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Gadi Evron,
>> ge at linuxbox.org.
>>
>> Blog: http://gevron.livejournal.com/
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