Perhaps I'm off base on this, but our site did experience connectivity issues starting around 830pm (-05GMT). Reading the above, this sounds like it was routine (scheduled) maintenance to enhance the capacity of the network/farm. If thats the case, I think more than a few hours notice is not unreasonable.
In addition to more than a few hours notice, I am of the mindset that more than a blog post should go out when the potential for a system down event is there. Perhaps a distribution list to send notification out that something like this will occur. Given that there were some connectivity issues, how can I be expected to read a blog post on the site thats not working? Its like sending am email to let everyone know the email server is down? :p
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