[outages] Ok, ok; Jeezus, people... it was a joke.

[Jimmy Hess]

On 2/7/13, Stephen Wilcox <steve.wilcox at ixreach.com> wrote:
> On 8 February 2013 01:47, Corey Quinn <corey at sequestered.net> wrote:
>> On Feb 7, 2013, at 5:41 PM, Stephen Wilcox <steve.wilcox at ixreach.com>
> The problem here is that 8.8.8.8 as well as many large web sites are

It's possible, but you're not going to be able to calculate what
percentage of users it's down for;  and 5% could be a significant
outage/issue,  if you can confirm a service so large is out for 5% of
users, where that 5% is a state or a large population, then I would
say it falls under significant traffic capacity.    It's possible that
8.8.8.8  could be down for larger percentages as well;  distributed
does not mean immune to outages.

Distributed applications fail and go down systemically,  sometimes
with even more troublesome failure scenarios than localized
applications.

Such reports have some potential importance; assuming appropriate
effort was undertaken to confirm.

> Hence we have issues reported which result in large threads which end up
> being of little use to anyone, even the users of those apps.

I can't really comment on the long threads, as they were too long, so
I didn't read them.

I don't see exactly a flood of noise here, however.

It's probably not unreasonable to suggest ignoring threads with
'Facebook'  in the subject line;   if you don't believe it counts as
significant traffic capacity,  or whichever $criteria_of_the_day  you
want to add;    the signal to noise may not be perfect, but it's not
that bad..

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-JH