Re: To the people who answer tech questions on this list

2011-02-17 Thread Jack Bates
On 2/17/2011 2:30 AM, Michael Dillon wrote: Never heard of Quora and that seems to be tied to Facebook, so not ideal. Did you just dis Facebook while plugging linked-in? Jack (continuing to ask stupid and redundant questions on NANOG)

Re: To the people who answer tech questions on this list

2011-02-17 Thread Jay Ashworth
- Original Message - > From: "Michael Dillon" > There are no perfect solutions. It seems to me that Twitter is not > conducive to technical Q&A and given the choice between Facebook and > LinkedIn, it seems that the professional social network is more likely > to gain traction. Nobody has

Re: To the people who answer tech questions on this list

2011-02-17 Thread Michael Dillon
> As for LinkedIN, I have nothing against, it, but I don't use it. I don't > have an account on it > and not sure I ever want to. I'm already slightly on facebook, and very > active on twitter, > so nothing against linkedin, but there's just too many social media websites > to keep track of Th

Re: To the people who answer tech questions on this list

2011-02-16 Thread TJ
On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 22:23, Phil Regnauld wrote: > Michael Dillon (wavetossed) writes: > > > > What do you think? (Probably best to answer this on the NANOG group over > at... > > >> Hmm, wouldn't http://serverfault.com/ or http://www.quora.com/ be > a more > >> appropriate / effi

Re: To the people who answer tech questions on this list

2011-02-16 Thread Hank Nussbacher
At 19:03 16/02/2011 -0800, Michael Dillon wrote: This list serves a number of purposes and one of them is to answer technical networking questions. But this list is also not the only place that these types of questions are asked. For instance, LinkedIn has a Q&A feature where people can ask and a

Re: To the people who answer tech questions on this list

2011-02-16 Thread Phil Regnauld
Michael Dillon (wavetossed) writes: > > What do you think? (Probably best to answer this on the NANOG group over > at... Hmm, wouldn't http://serverfault.com/ or http://www.quora.com/ be a more appropriate / efficient forum for technical questions ? Or does it have to b

RE: To the people who answer tech questions on this list

2011-02-16 Thread Brandon Kim
19:03:59 -0800 > Subject: To the people who answer tech questions on this list > From: wavetos...@googlemail.com > To: nanog@nanog.org > > This list serves a number of purposes and one of them is to answer > technical networking questions. But this list is also not the only &

To the people who answer tech questions on this list

2011-02-16 Thread Michael Dillon
This list serves a number of purposes and one of them is to answer technical networking questions. But this list is also not the only place that these types of questions are asked. For instance, LinkedIn has a Q&A feature where people can ask and answer questions on a wide range of topics. Just tod