> From: Joe Abley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: the right list to use for talking about nanog is nanog-futures > Date: Wed, 31 Aug 2005 16:20:27 -0400 > To: NANOG list <nanog@merit.edu> > > > On 31-Aug-2005, at 14:52, Barry Shein wrote: > > > Sorry for the interruption but I wish just once I could follow a > > topical list where 50% or more of the traffic wasn't people posting or > > arguing about how this or that post was off-topic! > > As Randy alluded earlier, the right list to use for this kind of meta- > nanog discussion right now is [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > echo "subscribe nanog-futures" | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > http://www.merit.edu/mail.archives/nanog-futures/ > > This is absolutely the right place to make your opinions heard about > mailing list policy, about blog entries or news articles being pasted > onto the list, about exactly what is and what should be off-topic on > the main list, and about the opportunities for venting frustration if > someone says you're off-topic when you swear you're not. And all > kinds of other stuff that ideally would never show up on the main list. > > I imagine it will make the lives of the over-worked, volunteer > mailing list administrator team much easier if these meta-threads > could head to nanog-futures right away. > > It would also make this particular SC member, speaking personally, > very happy if the discussions could move there rather than simply > ceasing. This is all important stuff to hear. > > > Joe
the [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list is broken. evidently, this has been the case for some time. maybe nanog has no future :-). over the last 24 hours, the steering committee has made a number of urgent requests to merit to fix this problem asap. our apologies. randy