<p dir="ltr">Yeah going by supported versions can be less expensive to manage. However in an environment where there is enough confidence/resource for support internally and where other integrations depends on a particular version, one has to think twice about updates.</p>
<p dir="ltr">Nevertheless, this is neither to judge on what is best as environment differ and AfriNIC tech would be in the best position to determine what is best for them unless they provide enough details that would enable us advice better (if they require help). </p>
<p dir="ltr">That said, In addition to your point about them not spamming you again, I would add that AfriNIC team should improve on its incidence response time owning to the fact that this has lingered for quite a few days.</p>
<p dir="ltr">Regards<br>
Sent from my Asus Zenfone2<br>
Kindly excuse brevity and typos.</p>
<div class="gmail_quote">On 20 Nov 2015 14:30, "Omo Oaiya" <<a href="mailto:omo@wacren.net">omo@wacren.net</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">I am finding this amusing now. Normal mortals like me would typically<br>
follow the developers guidance and stick with supported software -<br>
<a href="https://www.bestpractical.com/rt/download_file.html" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.bestpractical.com/rt/download_file.html</a><br>
<br>
If this was really installed in 2014, all I can say is please try not to<br>
spam me again. I am quite often checking mail on my mobile and having<br>
'00s of unsolicited mail is a pain.<br>
<br>
Thank you!<br>
<br>
-Omo<br>
<br>
On 20/11/2015 14:50, Seun Ojedeji wrote:<br>
> Hi,<br>
><br>
> Like I said this happened few days ago and I notified AfriNIC directly, so<br>
> I don't think it's necessarily an issue of whether AfriNIC was actively<br>
> aware or not. In some cases, it's the client that notices service issue and<br>
> reports such to the provider. That's why support contacts are there.<br>
><br>
> This should not also be entirely blamed on a software bug, as it could just<br>
> be a minor ticketing loop and a newer software version would have still<br>
> behaved the same way.<br>
><br>
> I read a blog sometime ago about airports in France still using windows<br>
> 3.1, while that is quite extreme, I think just explains how principle of<br>
> "if-its-serving don't worry"could help.<br>
><br>
> Regards<br>
><br>
> Sent from my Asus Zenfone2<br>
> Kindly excuse brevity and typos.<br>
> On 20 Nov 2015 13:11, <<a href="mailto:sm%2Bafrinic@elandsys.com">sm+afrinic@elandsys.com</a>> wrote:<br>
><br>
>> Hi Paulos,<br>
>> At 15:20 19-11-2015, Dr Paulos Nyirenda wrote:<br>
>><br>
>>> May be not BUT, as you will see from the mail, it was sent to a long<br>
>>> cc-list - which<br>
>>> made this message effectively a public message. I would have copied to<br>
>>> the long cc-list<br>
>>> but preferred an AfrNIC list first. As you must have seen on the list<br>
>>> others receive<br>
>>> many of these - publicly.<br>
>>><br>
>><br>
>> Thanks to Alan for the technical explanation.<br>
>><br>
>> The software which caused the problem was deployed in August 2014. It is<br>
>> likely that the problem has happened before but nobody noticed it. The<br>
>> message was sent to over 100 email addresses and to contacts in different<br>
>> companies and different countries. If it wasn't for your email AfriNIC<br>
>> would neither be aware that there is a bug in its software nor would it be<br>
>> aware that nobody noticed the problem before now.<br>
>><br>
>> Regards,<br>
>> S. Moonesamy<br>
>><br>
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