Re: Reasons for attendance drop off

2006-12-05 Thread bmanning
On Mon, Dec 04, 2006 at 01:09:40PM -0800, William B. Norton wrote: On 12/4/06, Martin Hannigan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Focusing on expense is a short term way to manage a loss in the front end, the bottom line. It would be useful to talk about solutions that drive attendance, IMHO. I

Exotic meeting locations in North America

2006-12-05 Thread Michael . Dillon
There really is no need for all NANOG meetings to have the same format. In fact, if we accept the idea of varying formats, then some of the cost issues can be tamed. For instance, one full meeting, one regional meeting, and one special-focus meeting per year. The full meeting could be the one

Re: Fwd: The IESG Approved the Expansion of the AS Number Registry

2006-12-05 Thread Michael . Dillon
Thanks very much for this link (and the summary). I see an interesting (if not surprising) trend in Advertised AS Count. Up until 2001 it was accelerating... and after 2001 its stayed linear. However, unadvertised AS count which was basically stagnant has increased markedly before then.

Re: Exotic meeting locations in North America

2006-12-05 Thread Roland Perry
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED] , [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes The idea of regional meetings is mainly to have a scaled down NANOG to reach a much wider audience that does not have a large conference travel budget. This is rather similar to RIPE's meetings in Qatar, Moscow, Bahrain, Nairobi and

Best Email Time

2006-12-05 Thread Dennis Dayman
Ok, so the question of when is the best time to spam has come up. I cited the ReturnPath 2004 study (http://returnpath.biz/pdf/time_deliverability_0704.pdf), but now the question of when we think the Net is most congested (more likely to see overloaded MX servers and delivery failures?). Anyone

Re: Best Email Time

2006-12-05 Thread William Allen Simpson
Dennis Dayman wrote: Ok, so the question of when is the best time to spam has come up. I cited the ReturnPath 2004 study (http://returnpath.biz/pdf/time_deliverability_0704.pdf), but now the question of when we think the Net is most congested (more likely to see overloaded MX servers and

Re: Reasons for attendance drop off

2006-12-05 Thread Joe Abley
On 5-Dec-2006, at 05:39, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: since you can't register w/o specifying a shirt size, this is not an unreasonable assumption. [For context, this is a thread that is happening on the nanog-futures mailing list. To subscribe, echo subscribe nanog-futures |

Re: Best Email Time

2006-12-05 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
On 12/5/06, William Allen Simpson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The study says that nearly 20 percent of email does not get delivered to the inbox as intended, largely because it gets mistaken as spam. That's utter hogwash. My Mail Mailguard statistics this year show that for me personally, only

Re: Exotic meeting locations in North America

2006-12-05 Thread Bill Woodcock
On Tue, 5 Dec 2006 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There really is no need for all NANOG meetings to have the same format. For instance, one full meeting, one regional meeting, and one special-focus meeting per year. I'll truncate the rest of Michael's excellent post for the sake

Re: Best Email Time

2006-12-05 Thread Kee Hinckley
On Dec 5, 2006, at 10:14 AM, William Allen Simpson wrote: The study says that nearly 20 percent of email does not get delivered to the inbox as intended, largely because it gets mistaken as spam. That's utter hogwash. My Mail Mailguard statistics this year show that for me personally,

Re: Best Email Time

2006-12-05 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Tue, 05 Dec 2006 10:14:06 EST, William Allen Simpson said: The study says that nearly 20 percent of email does not get delivered to the inbox as intended, largely because it gets mistaken as spam. Somewhere around 85% of all mail attempts to us are summarily rejected because the source is

U.S./Europe connectivity

2006-12-05 Thread nealr
I am doing some work on a network in central Illinois that is currently peering with Sprint and McLeod. They have a number of customers in the U.K. and they want to reduce latency to that part of the world. They've been offered a point to point 100 mbit link between their facility and

Re: U.S./Europe connectivity

2006-12-05 Thread outageslist outages
Hi, few strong links in Europe and specially UK are: COGENT, LEVEL3, CW,TELEFONICA COGENT win most of our US links to Europe even better than LEVEL3, but i would not be surprise if LEVEL3 win most of the links to the UK. for sprintlink, from Caribbean CW goes to sprintlink Miami and from there

Re: U.S./Europe connectivity

2006-12-05 Thread nealr
Lior, No, this is very helpful. We just turned up AdventNet's Net Flow Analyzer for this customer's two production cisco 7507s and we should be able to see where the European customers are very shortly. It is good to know that Cogent is a decent choice for this job - we've seen not so

Re: U.S./Europe connectivity

2006-12-05 Thread Pablo Espinosa
You can check out LINX out of the UK. Its is a decent public exchange point out of the UK and currently has the most participants out of all other peering points in the UK. You could also try www.peeringdb.com -- a great resource for peering data from a global standpoint. Hope that helps...

SBC RBL

2006-12-05 Thread Crist Clark
We started getting these, for reasons unknown, for some pacbell.net email addresses, 550 5.0.0 ylpvm35.prodigy.net Access Denied. To request removal, send the complete error message, including your ip addresses, in an E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] With great trepidation, I went ahead and

Re: SBC RBL

2006-12-05 Thread William Yardley
On Tue, Dec 05, 2006 at 01:06:34PM -0800, Crist Clark wrote: We started getting these, for reasons unknown, for some pacbell.net email addresses, 550 5.0.0 ylpvm35.prodigy.net Access Denied. To request removal, send the complete error message, including your ip addresses, in an E-mail

Re: SBC RBL

2006-12-05 Thread Dave Pooser
550 5.0.0 ylpvm35.prodigy.net Access Denied. To request removal, send the complete error message, including your ip addresses, in an E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Interesting... we just started getting a bunch of these too. I wonder if there's a glitch on their side. I just did an MX

Re: SBC RBL

2006-12-05 Thread Dave Pooser
I'm going with clueless until proven otherwise. Okay, maybe I'm the clueless one-- that's a typo. If I add the silent invisible g into sbcglobal it works. Sigh. On the other hand, we do appear to have some nonresponsive machines in the round-robin: mail:~ postmstr$ telnet sbcmx1.prodigy.net