FYI; forwarded from NANOG. William, don't even bother yelling at mefor
crossing it. :-).
Cheers,
-- jra
----- Forwarded message from William Allen Simpson <wsimpson(a)greendragon.com> -----
Date: Wed, 03 May 2006 12:40:58 -0400
From: William Allen Simpson <wsimpson(a)greendragon.com>
To: nanog list <nanog(a)merit.edu>
Subject: Wikipedia watching (was: Tier 2 - Lease?)
At 01:58 AM 5/3/2006, Richard A Steenbergen wrote:
>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tier_1_carrier
>
>As of this exact moment that I'm posting, that article is actually
>reasonably accurate. Of course I'm sure in 5 minutes 100 people will be
Berkman, Scott wrote:
Interesting to notice someone (perhaps from this
list?) has removed
Cogent from the T1 list. They did however leave
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cogent alone.
Gentlefolk, don't forget that *you* can fix the entries. For several
years, I and most anybody I know locally here would just fix things
whenever we noticed a silly mistake, without logging on.
Last year, at the urging of some folks in various fields, I finally
added a user name. However, because of their arcane rules about not
writing articles that are/were based on original work, I cannot
actually help much in my areas of most significant expertise.
I urge you to add a user name, and "watch" some articles. The amount
of misinformation in some fields, including networking, is astounding.
Now, it's gotten rather large. When Wikipedia goes down, users call
support. They have a technical list, but it's hard to help much, as
the supporting documentation has not kept up with installation and
operations. A problem I'm sure we all recognize!
They are basically holding things together and bailing with both hands.
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William Allen Simpson
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