If there is a North-American network-outages list, I'd like to know where I could get information about it.
There are several. Most major providers claim to have one. But you usually have to be a customer, and rarely post information about outages. A provider's 'official' definition of an outage doesn't seem at all related to what an ordinary person would consider an outage. The DAL outage list often carries outage information from a variety of sources, official and unofficial. outage@dal.net. But be prepared for an onslaught of Bull's Eye Targeted E-mail. General discussion about outage lists (but not outages) is on the outage-discuss@academ.com list. A relatively quiet list. And finally, CNN has coverage of outages on an irregular basis. -- Sean Donelan, Data Research Associates, Inc, St. Louis, MO Affiliation given for identification not representation