Forgive my directness, but there was no _new_ data at all in what the referenced URL quoted Steve/Matt as saying.
I'll admit I asked Steve & Matt a pretty softball question, but that wasn't really the point. My question was really about my fear that Internet outages aren't news anymore. Have outages really become so common place that people now accept them as the normal condition of the net? There is a lack of any new data. In general providers seem to be releasing less and less information why outages occur. Are natural disasters really the major cause of outages, or is pilot error a bigger factor than providers care to admit? Fiber cuts get repaired a lot faster than dumb management decisions. -- Sean Donelan, Data Research Associates, Inc, St. Louis, MO Affiliation given for identification not representation
At 22:50 2/22/98 -0600, you wrote:
Forgive my directness, but there was no _new_ data at all in what the referenced URL quoted Steve/Matt as saying.
I'll admit I asked Steve & Matt a pretty softball question, but that wasn't really the point. My question was really about my fear that Internet outages aren't news anymore. Have outages really become so common place that people now accept them as the normal condition of the net?
Yes. At least three this week that I noticed, and I wasn't really looking. Limited in duration (<30 minutes). This is speaking as an end user, which I am, and not a network operator (which I sometimes am.) It's not that we're starting to accept them as the normal condition of the net, it's that it's starting to be the normal condition of the net. Some days are good, others bad. _________________ _ _ _________________________ William S. Duncanson |_| Collective |_| http://www.colltech.com Page:800-495-1005 |_ Technologies _| wduncanson@colltech.com caesar@starkreality.com [] [] "The Power Of Many Minds" A Pencom Company
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