Infrastructure status, 2008-08-19 UTC 0200

[Jim Cornette]

Joel Rees wrote:
> 
> On Aug 22, 2008, at 8:45 AM, Jim Cornette wrote:
> 
>> Michael Schwendt wrote:
>>> On Wed, 20 Aug 2008 23:35:20 -0400, Jim Cornette wrote:
>>>> I myself am not on the announce list
>>> Why not?
>>
>> Because I never thought the list was informative.
> 
> This is a perception that needs correcting. Unfortunately, the people 
> that foster that perception are anything but under the redhat umbrella. 
> (Happen to be trying to tear it down, right now, if you know what I 
> mean.) Just look at their record to see the difference between what they 
> preach and what they do.
> 
> In many parts of Japan there is a over-the-wire emergency broadcast 
> system that pre-dated the internet. (And has since been at least 
> partially re-purposed in many small towns to bring broadband in before 
> any independent ISPs showed interest. I think, if you think about it, 
> you can think of some implementation issues there.) The original purpose 
> of the system was to broadcast earthquake and storm (typhoon, etc.) 
> warnings and such.
> 
> There are some lists in which no news is good news. That does not mean 
> the list is useless.
> 
I believe the list also included package updates before. Until this 
discussion I did not realize there is a dedicated list to packages 
announcements.
Deleting packages information frequently got annoying back in the day.
I'm signed up for the list for announce now. Whatever list I was on 
before was not informative for my interests.

Interesting information regarding Japan and their over the wire 
emergency broadcasting system.

I agree, no news is good news for OMG sorts of lists.

Jim

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