Additionally, someone may be sitting out there wondering why thier network is down, or having problems.

Just fyi: Jay's email let me go home at 7:30 PM friday-- after exploring all sorts of theories why our bgp to the CIX router was flapping every other minute--assured that suspending bgp to CIX earlier was the best thing to do for the day. I hope other exchanges will follow Jay's example.

IMHO, this notification was perfectly acceptable in this forum.

Yup, certainly more appropriate than the rantings (including mine) about spamming :-) Sanjay.