I myself only took an interest in AFRINIC starting about 2016. I have been hunting down snoweshoe spammeers since about 2004, but mostly, and until recently, those tended to stay within either ARIN or RIPE IP space, so I wasn't really motivated to learn much about the history of AFRINIC until 2016, when I noticed some things relating to the routing of IP space that concerned me. Prior to that, I knew essentially zero about AFRINIC or about the people and discussion that took place here prior to that (i.e. prior to 2016).
More recently of course, I have had some reason to take an interest, as I believe you all know. Having not been around or on any of the AFRINIC mailing lists before 2016, I am now finding it a facinating exercise to go back and look at some of the mailing list archives (e.g. for the RPD list) prior to 2016. I've already found a number of very enlightening and illuminating archived posts from the pre-2016 era, but the following one really sort of jumped out at me. In it, one particular persono (who I think we all know) directly accused another person (who I also think we all know) of being a "fraud"... his word, not mine... for having given a false physical location while attempting to run for what I gather was a (co-?) chair seat on the AFRINIC Policy Development Committee. I am not persuaded that the poster in this case would be eager to repeat that claim now, given his rather different present circumtances. https://lists.afrinic.net/pipermail/rpd/2014/003849.html Regards, rfg P.S. It is my forlorn hope that I might yet live to see the day when the many the knuckleheads who post to public RIR mailing lists might yet come to be educated regarding the value of wrapping the lines of their mailing list posts at 80 columns, e.g. so that readers of the archives will not be obliged to do vertical scrolling for miles in order to read any one of their posts in the archives. But of course, some people are just too lazy to give a damn about anything but their own personal convenience, and they are fundamentally un-educatable. _______________________________________________ Community-Discuss mailing list Community-Discuss@afrinic.net https://lists.afrinic.net/mailman/listinfo/community-discuss