Additionally, someone may be sitting out there wondering
why thier network is down, or having problems.
Just fyi: Jay's email let me go home at 7:30 PM friday--
after exploring all sorts of theories why our bgp to the
CIX router was flapping every other minute--assured that
suspending bgp to CIX earlier was the best thing to do
for the day. I hope other exchanges will follow Jay's example.
IMHO, this notification was perfectly acceptable in this forum.
Yup, certainly more appropriate than the rantings (including
mine) about spamming 
Sanjay.