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Does anyone think this is only a diversion for the AS/400 staffs of the world to see if M$ can cause an AS/400 to fail due to the absurd number of gloating e-mails? ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ed Chabot" <echabot@marlinfirearms.com> To: <MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com> Sent: Thursday, January 25, 2001 2:36 PM Subject: RE: someone is not being straight. Guess who... > Doug, > It would only drop the availability % by .25%, if MY math is correct. > > Ed Chabot > The Marlin Firearms Company > 100 Kenna Drive > North Haven, CT 06473 > (203)985-3254 > > -----Original Message----- > From: owner-midrange-l@midrange.com > [mailto:owner-midrange-l@midrange.com]On Behalf Of Douglas Handy > Sent: Thursday, January 25, 2001 2:38 PM > To: MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com > Subject: Re: someone is not being straight. Guess who... > > > Joe, > > >Well, that employee must be at it again, because MSN.com is down. > > >From where I am, so is www.microsoft.com and www.hotmail.com too. All of > them > have DNS errors -- just like yesterday. > > So what counts toward "availibility" percentages? If the HTTP servers etc > were > technically "up" but unreachable due to DNS errors or a DoS attack, can M$ > still > claim the time in their "up" computation? > > And if not, has anyone done the math on how far this outage goes towards > dropping the percentage? Calling it a 22 hour outage (is it really over > yet?) > would drop an entire year by 2.5% even if the rest of the year never had a > glitch. Or put another way, to get back to 99.999% it would have to stay up > non-stop for the next 251 years... > > If this is an employee mistake, I'll bet he'll be flipping burgers (or > coding > RPG <g>) soon. But it sure smacks of someone trying to embarass MS after > they > launched their big advertising campaign. > > Doug > +--- > | This is the Midrange System Mailing List! > | To submit a new message, send your mail to MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com. > | To subscribe to this list send email to MIDRANGE-L-SUB@midrange.com. > | To unsubscribe from this list send email to MIDRANGE-L-UNSUB@midrange.com. > | Questions should be directed to the list owner/operator: > david@midrange.com > +--- > > +--- > | This is the Midrange System Mailing List! > | To submit a new message, send your mail to MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com. > | To subscribe to this list send email to MIDRANGE-L-SUB@midrange.com. > | To unsubscribe from this list send email to MIDRANGE-L-UNSUB@midrange.com. > | Questions should be directed to the list owner/operator: david@midrange.com > +--- +--- | This is the Midrange System Mailing List! | To submit a new message, send your mail to MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com. | To subscribe to this list send email to MIDRANGE-L-SUB@midrange.com. | To unsubscribe from this list send email to MIDRANGE-L-UNSUB@midrange.com. | Questions should be directed to the list owner/operator: david@midrange.com +---
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