Hi,
I would agree. In reality I couldn't care less on what happens to the
sites in general. I'm probably interested about 2-3 sites and their
downtimes, so for me it would make sense to have kind of a whitelist
of sites of which I would receive notifications. So if my T1 goes down
I wouldn't start worrying why no data is moving, but would instead
know that. However if a T2 site in taiwan is reconfiguring its
CE ....... I couldn't care less (sorry for the involved example). So
maybe one should take a serious look at the alert system and think on
WHAT do people really want to know. At the moment I have to admit I
read the broadcast e-mails with the backspace key....
Mario
On May 7, 2008, at 9:57 PM, Oxana Smirnova wrote:
>>> I don't want to unsubscribe from relevant mailing lists, and yet I
>>> don't want to know when every tiny service is up and down, 12
>>> (twelve) times.
>> It certainly makes you realise just how unstable the grid is ...
>
> Not really; neither me nor my fellow VO members would even noticed
> that a site in Kharkiv had unscheduled maintenance of power supply
> feeder unless I've gotten 8 messages about it.
>
> It reminds me of 1994, when NCSA kept a Web page where they
> published monthly lists of *all* new Web sites. There were like 8-12
> new sites every month, was me favorite bookmark. GOCDB comes close
> second ;-)
>
> Cheers,
> Oxana
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