At 03:54 PM 1/3/99 -0600, Jon Green wrote:
Considering that his problems were isolated to Exodus clients, yes, it's off-topic. Small network outages happen every day, and I don't think we need to hear about them all. IMHO, what DOES belong on this list are discussions of network design, router configuration, LARGE SCALE outages, emerging Internet technologies, and general knowledge-sharing of how to build better networks. It's not a mailing list for end users to say "I can't reach www.something.com, but before I report it to my ISP or to the far-end ISP I wanted to see if anyone else sees my problem." If that is what the list continues to turn into, I for one will be unsubscribing, because that is useless to me.
I agree that "every little outage" isn't the purview of this list. It just seems like we have more messages on this list lately discussing what should/should-not be talked about than we do about "real" topics. This particular case may be more obviously "off-topic", but the reality is that it just seems (seems mind you) like a disproportionate amount of our traffic is complaining about other traffic. Dunno... D