On Thu, May 15, 2008 at 12:39 PM,  <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Personally, I think that all posting access to the list should be
> removed. Yes, nobody should be able to post messages to the list.
> Instead, posting would be via a blog website, and the blog messages
> would then be echoed into various NANOG mailing lists based on
> which blog category was being used. Subscribers could then construct
> their own personal NANOG list by subscribing to the blog categories
> that they are interested in. Threading would work very well since
> on a blog, you have to identify the thread before you post.
>
> There are literally hundreds of blogging software packages out
> there, many of them blog construction tool kits with dozens
> of plugins available. Given the fact that the list runs on Mailman
> which is written in Python, I suggest that folks have a look at
> this list of Python blogging software:
> http://wiki.python.org/moin/PythonBlogSoftware
> My sense is that PyBlosxom and the Django-based stuff are the
> more popular. It's too late to do this as a Summer Of Code project
> but the same principal could be applied, i.e. find a university
> student, put them together with a technical mentor, and give them
> access to the server needed to test and trial the blog.
>
> If the SC isn't interested in testing this right now, then I suggest
> that the new MLC give serious consideration to taking this on as
> a project.
>
> --Michael Dillon

I'll say it.... You, M Dillon, are out of touch with what NANOG is.
NANOG is not a mailinglist software development company/group, nor
should it be developing it's own custom one-off of off-the-shelf
products.

-Jim P.

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