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    That is true but I find these to be only moderately useful, and a
    lot of work to keep up with if you really care.  You need to know
    how to interpret the little information they gave you: the name of
    your upstream switches.  These notifications are useful for the "big
    picture" and if you're willing to make some calls you might even
    find out if a planned maintenance will affect you, but often you
    won't.  Good luck with that.<br>
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    -Chris<br>
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    <div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 2/15/2013 6:19 AM, Mitch wrote:<br>
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cite="mid:CAPC+kK5-=OqA9kj7V2278zuP2WVT69Mm658vgWd2YSN-YUh+qA@mail.gmail.com"
      type="cite">You can actually use <a moz-do-not-send="true"
        href="http://www.centurylinkservices.net/events" target="_blank"
        style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:10pt">http://www.centurylinkservices.net/events.</a><font
        face="Arial, sans-serif"> to sign up. I signed up with much
        issue, you just select the area you want notices for later,
        and whether you want just unplanned outages, planned, or both. </font> <br>
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      <div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Feb 15, 2013 at 9:10 AM, Chris
        Adams <span dir="ltr"><<a moz-do-not-send="true"
            href="mailto:cmadams@hiwaay.net" target="_blank">cmadams@hiwaay.net</a>></span>
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          <div class="im">Once upon a time, Anderson, Kevin <<a
              moz-do-not-send="true"
              href="mailto:Kevin.Anderson@wizards.com">Kevin.Anderson@wizards.com</a>>
            said:<br>
            > To follow up, I have a Century-Link / Savvis engineer
            on the phone stating that the route flap is related to an
            emergency code update to their border routers related to
            last nights similar outage.  Notifications would've been
            fantastic.<br>
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          Our CenturyLink rep told us we would have to be "approved" to
          get<br>
          advance notifications of planned outages (and then we never
          heard<br>
          anything).  Great way to run a network.<br>
          <span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888">--<br>
              Chris Adams <<a moz-do-not-send="true"
                href="mailto:cmadams@hiwaay.net">cmadams@hiwaay.net</a>><br>
              Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet
              Services<br>
              I don't speak for anybody but myself - that's enough
              trouble.<br>
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