On Tue, 30 Oct 2007, Joe Abley wrote:
Mail seems to be one of those topics which is of interest to many nanog
subscribers, but simultaneously annoying to many (presumably different) nanog
subscribers.
Given that observation, creating a [EMAIL PROTECTED] list for the discussion
of "e-mail operations" as a bounded experiment seems like a reasonable thing
to do.
I don't see any reason not to try this.
The NANOG list is currently a mess. Sometimes it's arguably an off-topic
mess. Other times, it's just too many people saying the same things over
and over, such that if anybody said anything new and interesting they'd
get lost in the noise. If it had any value as "the one true list," I
think that's long gone.
The idea of dividing into specialties seems to upset a few people. I'm
not sure if that's because they're afraid they'll miss some discussion, or
if it's because they're afraid somebody will miss them discussing
something. If the former, specialty lists shouldn't cause them any
problems -- they can just join them all. If the latter, I don't have a
whole lot of sympathy.
I don't know if dividing the list into specialty lists would fix the
current problems. I suspect the real issue is that there's a size of
mailing list beyond which allowing unmoderated posting just doesn't work
anymore, and we've hit it. But I think if i could subscribe to some lists
with more in depth discussions of my specialties, and could let the drivel
and discussions of areas of network operations that I don't work on happen
elsewhere, I'd be much happier than I am with the current state.
-Steve
