[130605] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Facebook down!! Alert!
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Matt Baldwin)
Wed Oct 6 16:07:03 2010
In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.2.00.1010061528580.14686@murf.icantclick.org>
Date: Wed, 6 Oct 2010 13:06:51 -0700
From: Matt Baldwin <baldwinmathew@gmail.com>
To: david raistrick <drais@icantclick.org>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
I would imagine more businesses benefit from a FB outage in terms of a
tick up in productivity versus businesses harmed by a FB outage, e.g.
Zygna. So, net net a FB outage could be seen as a positive thing in
the course of a work day.
-matt
On Wed, Oct 6, 2010 at 12:31 PM, david raistrick <drais@icantclick.org> wro=
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> On Wed, 6 Oct 2010, Bret Clark wrote:
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>> I have to agree on this as well. I can understand when a service provide=
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> you've forgotten that facebook (and indeed twitter too) are service
> providers that provide business-critical services.
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> just because you don't want to play facebook games doesn't make a faceboo=
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> outage any less operationally relevant than, say, an akamai or limelight
> outage.
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