I just checked my subscription, and I think I'm still subscribed to it. But I haven't seen anything posted on outage-discuss@academ.com since last year.
Maybe Stan should subscribe it to the outage lists of all major ISPs. But I fear that three months out it will be swamped with irrelevant outage notices from TeenieNet telling us that their usenet news server is down, and we'll all unsubscribe. Maybe I am being to cynical? Essentially, it is hard to get balance at the scale of the net as it is today. One either gets too much or too little. And this problem will not be decreasing in the near future.
The last thing I remember was a brief announcement of Craig's Inter- Provider Notification web pages.
Another failure of what seemed to be a good idea. Folk did not seem to look at it before calling our touble desk. So we stopped posting planned outages to it. But maybe we did not know how many people checked it and did not call. But the call rate did not go up when we stopped posting to IPN. randy