The idea of dividing into specialties seems to upset a few
people. I'm not sure if that's because they're afraid
they'll miss some discussion, or if it's because they're
afraid somebody will miss them discussing something. If the
former, specialty lists shouldn't cause them any problems
I wonder whether a better solution might be to create a
second NANOG list for all the non-core operational issues
from mail to P2p to botnets. People who are only interested
in the traditional NANOG core, can stay away. People who are
interested in broader operational issues can join the
Lucy,
What is your opinion on Randy Bush's latest post to the NANOG List?
I wonder, was Randy's message so cryptic that you didn't realize he was
memorializing a fallen comrade?
I wonder why Randy is driven to make everyone of his postings a combined
IQ and trivia test, but since they are so
Anything that we
can do to see a productive community meeting, a thoughtful
election, and meetings with the SC, PC and MLC that lead to a
better NANOG.
Quite frankly, if you are one of the uninitiated, and that includes the
managers that decide whether or not to fund someone's travel to a
* More statistics on mailing list usage:
** Top posters
** Top threads
The IETF discuss list does this. It's a good idea, if it is posted to
the list on a weekly basis.
* Curious stats - number of unsubscriptions vs posts /day
Somebody thinks that volume chases people away and looks for
I fully agree with #7, and if everyone acted reasonably and
polite, we wouldn't need rules at all. Unfortunately, we *do*
need some sort of method to deal with ones who won't listen.
What's wrong with private warnings to each offender?
a) As I said above, I've asked [politely] to kill the
As one of our resident experts on excessive posting (some
of it even on topic), how do you suggest we approach the
problem without acting dictatorial?
Act editorial instead.
--Michael Dillon
perhaps we saw a huge attendance dip at Toronto
the opposite
even for non-canada source? i'm sure we saw .ca spike, but did
we see .us dip?
Can we get someone to plot attendee origin cities on a map for several
recent NANOG meetings? It would be most interesting to compare the
... and I've made a few suggestions about what the MLC could be doing.
I'm also curious about 'acting professionally' - there's always the
conflict between a person acting for the MLC, and for themselves, but
still posting from the same location.
In the case of that conflict, then simply
Not worth it, bandwidth is not a cost here. Each message
takes up about
the same amount of space regardless of it's it 25 lines or 600.
On every email client I have used, it is quick to glance at the first
screenful of message, decide whether there is anything of interest and
if not, delete
the copying and reposting of others'
ideas and work, ...
This is an odd comment to see regarding the NANOG mailing list. NANOG is
not an academic research publishing venue. It is an information sharing
venue for people working in Internet operations. Copying and reposting
of others ideas
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