Blackberry List

Mon Feb 11 23:02:52 UTC 2008

I sent this off list to Justin, but realized that it might be of use  
to the rest of the list, as well.

We went on the same hunt today when we noticed something was amiss and  
stumbled upon an unofficial notification list for Blackberry outages.

The subscribe page is here:
http://www.dataoutages.com/mailman/listinfo/bb-outage

It's moderated, seems to be fairly low on the noise level, and has  
definitely helped us figure out what was going on.
--Wayne
On Feb 11, 2008, at 5:31 PM, Steven M. Bellovin wrote:

>
> On Mon, 11 Feb 2008 14:15:20 -0800
> "Justin Pauler - Lists" <Lists at JWPauler.org> wrote:
>
>> Hello everyone...
>>
>> I realize this isn't the right forum for this, so, does anyone have a
>> Blackberry list that has discussions much like what we do here? Even
>> better, that might have information or alerts for when there are
>> issues? I'm seeing an issue right now where phones from two
>> independant providers have not recieved updates from two independant
>> BES servers since 2:30 PM CST (that's now about 2 1/2 hours). Justin
>
> From the Wall Street Journal:
>
> 	A widespread service outage hit BlackBerry users Monday
> 	afternoon. AT&T said it has been told by Research In Motion
> 	that the problem is with RIM's infrastructure, and is
> 	affecting all wireless carriers in North America. The
> 	disruption follows an outage last April that left millions
> 	of customers without email access.
>
>
> 		--Steve Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb
>
>