[outages] Facebook down?

[Tim Yocum]

On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 11:51 AM, david raistrick <drais at icantclick.org> wrote:
> I could care less about a fiber cut in NYC.

If this is true and not just in jest, you're very much on the wrong list.

Every message that passes through this list has a footer, shown below:

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I encourage everyone to read the above link for clarification on what
material is expected on the list. As best I can determine, "is
XYZwebsite down?" does not pass muster. There are other sites for the
latter: http://www.downforeveryoneorjustme.com/www.facebook.com

For those who may be too busy updating their Facebook status to click
the above (or below) list description, here's the first paragraph:

"The primary goal of this mailing list ("outages") is for
outages-reporting that would apply to failures of major communications
infrastructure components having significant traffic-carrying
capacity, similar to what FCC provided prior to 9/11 days but they
seem to have pulled back due to terrorism concerns. Some also believe
that LEC's and IXC's also like this model as they no longer have to
air their dirty laundry. Then again, this mailing list is not about
making anyone look bad, its all about information sharing and keeping
network operators & end users abreast on the situation as close to
real-time information as possible in order to assess and respond to
major outage such as routing voice/data via different carriers which
may directly or indirectly impact us and our customers. A reliable
communications network is essential in times of crisis."

...though some end-users may find a Facebook outage to be a "time of
crisis," I'm fairly certain for operational purposes we can agree that
it isn't worthy of a thread here -- whether it's a thread of "Me Too!"
posts or "but it's important to ME!" posts.

Please, let's let this thread burn out and move on with our day.

- Tim