> For stuff that falls in the bucket of "relevant to the population but > just not to me" I do what I do when that happens at the conference > and move along.
And there is the heart of the problem with all of the suggestions about defining what is on and off topic. For any single individual, there will always be lots of things relevant to the population, but not to that individual. The bigger the list, and the more diverse the population, the more likely this is to happen. Now that the ISP industry has diversified into so many varying business models from Equinix to Rackspace to AT&T to Sprint, it is no longer possible to have an Internet ops list that is as focused as NANOG circa 1995. And now that there are 10,000 people on the list, the area of fully overlapping interest is getting very small. However, it would be interesting if someone took the time to go through the entire archive of NANOG conferences and classified all of the presentation topics, then published the list. If ever this categorised list exists, it would be good to use it as a guideline for what is topical on the NANOG list. --Michael Dillon _______________________________________________ Nanog-futures mailing list Nanog-futures@nanog.org http://mailman.nanog.org/mailman/listinfo/nanog-futures
