All,
We recently, at $dayjob, had one of our peers (at Symantec) send out a
network maint notification, putting 70 addresses in the "To:" field,
rather than using BCC or the exchange's mailing list.
Naturally, when you mail 30 addresses, of the forms peering@ and noc@
various organizations, you're likely to hit at least a few
autoresponders and ticket systems...
And at least one or two of those autoresponders are of course brainded and
configured to reply-all. (In this case, Verizon's ServiceNow setup was
such a stupid responder). And that made things fun in our own ticket
system, as our RT setup happily created a bunch of tickets.
My question for the group -- does anyone know if there's a "best
practices" for sending maint notifications like this? An RFC sort of
thing?
While it would define a social protocol, rather than a truly technical
one, if there's not such a document, it seems like it could useful. And
once such a thing exists, exchanges could of course helpfully point their
members AT it (for both their humans, and ticket systems, to follow).
-Dan
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