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"The announcement was visible in a MOTD on every server in the fra3 location for the last two days."

"I have not touched any machines in fra3 for a week, how the hell would I know of it? Why do we even have #fra3-maintenance and #maintenance channels then, if that's your stance?"

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> "I have not touched any machines in fra3 for a week, how the hell would I know of it? Why do we even have #fra3-maintenance and #maintenance channels then, if that's your stance?"

We put the MOTD up ≥7 days in advance and put it in relevant Slack channels.

We still get "Is Foo down?" the day of.

Reality is you send multiple emails, slack messages, and MotD and people will still act like there was no warning

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