FYI; forwarded from NANOG. William, don't even bother yelling at mefor crossing it. :-).
Cheers, -- jra
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Date: Wed, 03 May 2006 12:40:58 -0400 From: William Allen Simpson wsimpson@greendragon.com To: nanog list nanog@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.