[24768] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: OUTAGE: MCI/Worldcom frame-relay network
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alan Hannan)
Mon Aug 9 12:09:09 1999
Date: Mon, 9 Aug 1999 09:07:34 -0700
From: Alan Hannan <alan@globalcenter.net>
To: John Starta <starta@primenet.com>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSI.3.96.990809084908.18915D-100000@usr03.primenet.com>; from John Starta on Mon, Aug 09, 1999 at 09:05:03AM -0700
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
> I'm confused by your message. Which is more questionable: The MarketWatch
> story which was clearly inaccurate -- it didn't even mention impact to the
> industry they report on (i.e., CBOT) -- or the messages Sean posted? From
> all appearances Sean's messages were timely, highly accurate, and very
> informative. This is more than can be said of the news media coverage.
> This is the second time I have witnessed you complaining about outage
> information being posted and discussed in this forum. Why is information
> sharing bad?
I don't believe that information sharing is bad.
I think it is good.
I do not believe NANOG is appropriate for real time operational
issues.
That's all.
-alan
PS - sean's messages were not 'highly accurate' as they maintained
that WCOM was not reporting on the problems, while they were.
