[130609] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Facebook down!! Alert!
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (david raistrick)
Wed Oct 6 16:35:26 2010
Date: Wed, 6 Oct 2010 16:33:51 -0400 (EDT)
From: david raistrick <drais@icantclick.org>
To: Greg Whynott <Greg.Whynott@oicr.on.ca>
In-Reply-To: <A51DCD67-9E2E-456B-86B1-0517F88C1EB4@oicr.on.ca>
Cc: "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Wed, 6 Oct 2010, Greg Whynott wrote:
>
>> just because you don't want to play facebook games doesn't make a facebook
>> outage any less operationally relevant than, say, an akamai or limelight
>> outage.
>
> IMO which may be way off base, when akamai goes off the air, people lose
> potential sales/revenue. when facebook goes off the air, a greater
> number of companies become more efficient than those who suffer
> productivity loss.
so the majority defines operational now, huh? wow. nice to know that
network service providers outnumber other companies these days... (of
course, those service providers also make their money from facebook
consumers....)
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