[59433] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: National Do Not Call Registry has opened and Yahoo isn't
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (chuck goolsbee)
Sat Jun 28 02:05:05 2003
In-Reply-To: <bdj7nv$jsg$1@xuxa.iecc.com>
Date: Fri, 27 Jun 2003 23:04:24 -0700
To: nanog@merit.edu
From: chuck goolsbee <chucklist@forest.net>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
>Next time there's a project like this that's going to
>have a big first day spike it'd make sense to do load shedding and
>divert peak traffic to a server that says "sorry, we're overloaded,
>please come back tomorrow and don't panic because you have until the
>end of July to sign up and be on the first release of the list." That
>and fix the rDNS and price out some alternatives to Redmond Bloatware,
>of course.
...and ask the questions asked here (much!) more than a few hours
prior to the event start/spike.
Coming here to ask what was asked was obviously a smart move by Mr.
Callahan, but one and a half days prior to launch was way too late to
successfully implement any of the (very good) advice given.
--chuck
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