<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 12:48 PM, John Von Essen <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:john@quonix.net">john@quonix.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
We're talking about average Joe Q Public.<br>
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This list is for NOC people, ISP operators - not the average Joe. Thats my point. Why are we wasting cycles on posting facebook outages. "WE" know that facebook is meaningless</blockquote><div><br></div><div><br>
</div><div>Thousands of companies rely on Facebook's uptime for income. You might call Facebook pointless, but I'm not sure Zynga agrees with that assessment.</div><div><br></div><div>Facebook is pointless *for you*. to Zynga's NOC team, probably less so. Let's not pretend it's pointless for everyone, from irate customers who call ISP's complaining that the "internet" is down, to people who use Facebook as a contact list/promotional tool/calendar, all the way up to multi-million dollar corporations who base a large portion of their revenue stream on Facebook's uptime.</div>
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My point to Virendra is this list is becoming tainted with meaningless posts. If people post garbage all the time, it will no longer be useful to anyone.<br><br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Far more time has been spent debating the merit of posting about Facebook than I've ever spent deleting emails with Facebook in the title, and far more time than it would have taken to create an email to filter out facebook messages from this list. We are, after all, NOC people and ISP operators, so we have the ability to determine what's important for each and every one of us. Facebook's status may not be important enough for you or I to read about, but I don't feel the need to dictate its level of importance to others.</div>
<div><br></div></div>-- <br>Derek Bodner<br><a href="mailto:subscribedlists@derekbodner.com">subscribedlists@derekbodner.com</a><br>