Hi, A handful of meetings ago, the IETF people started creating per- meeting mailing lists designed specifically to discuss topics relevant to those attending the meeting (lunch, problems with the venue, endless whining about wifi, complaints about the foreignness of venues outside the US, etc) in order to keep that chatter off the main [EMAIL PROTECTED] list. There is irony here due to the implication that there's any signal at all on the [EMAIL PROTECTED] list which is worth protecting from such chatter, but bear with me.
Most traffic on the NANOG list over the past few days has been commentary about the city where the meeting is being held. I am not complaining about it; I found it entertaining, despite the fact I am not able to be in Brooklyn for the meeting. However, I would guess that: (a) some people who are not attending this NANOG meeting are less enthusiastic about having a list filled with it, and (b) some people who have useful information to share about New York might well be reticent about posting their thoughts to the main list since the subject matter is blatantly off-topic. It seems to me that a useful experiment would be to include a check box on the sign-up page for future meetings along the lines of "Subscribe me to the NANOG-98 meeting mailing list, on which all local chatter for meeting attendees is on-topic". This might deal with both (a) and (b), above. The list could be closed a week following the meeting, or something. Just an idea from the peanut gallery. [Along similar lines, it seems a shame that the meeting wiki effort we kicked off for NANOG 39 seems not to have continued as far as this meeting. At least, I couldn't find a NANOG 43 topic.] Joe _______________________________________________ Nanog-futures mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.nanog.org/mailman/listinfo/nanog-futures
