[103251] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: Mailing list newbies suggestion
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Darden, Patrick S.)
Mon Mar 24 08:27:10 2008
Date: Mon, 24 Mar 2008 08:25:58 -0400
In-Reply-To: <47E5A40E.4030407@pando.com>
From: "Darden, Patrick S." <darden@armc.org>
To: "Keith O'Neill" <keith@pando.com>,
"Brian Dickson" <briand@ca.afilias.info>
Cc: "NANOG list" <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
I think Brian was just thinking about a list of networking resources.
FAQs. Maybe Brian can put something together (with our help) and
maintain it on a quarterly basis. A Meta-FAQ for Networking....
It would be nice if this Meta-FAQ was included in the subscriptions
greeting, as Brian said, but even if not--we could answer simpler q's=20
and regular q's with a "please read the faq" instead of guarded=20
hostility (let's face it, we've all worked hard to achieve our level=20
of knowledge, and to have a paid consultant/network expert ask us=20
such fundamental q's can certainly stick in the craw (i.e. they
are being paid for this level of knowledge? for our answers?)).
Shouldn't be too hard.
--Patrick Darden
-----Original Message-----
From: owner-nanog@merit.edu [mailto:owner-nanog@merit.edu]On Behalf Of
Keith O'Neill
Sent: Saturday, March 22, 2008 8:28 PM
To: Brian Dickson
Cc: NANOG list
Subject: Re: Mailing list newbies suggestion
I am not sure why this is an issue. Someone asked a question about=20
multihoming and the way I see it if you don't want to respond to it or=20
don't want to read it than don't. Why does this have to be a major=20
issue. I read what I want and respond to what I want. I think the rest=20
of the community can do the same.
I like the idea of a wiki is a great idea but who really wants to=20
maintain it or update it? Anyways I see nothing wrong in someone asking=20
for help in NANOG. I would think that anyone who wanted to help would=20
just respond offline or on the list and give it, if you are not someone=20
that wants to help then just ignore it, not really that hard.
I see more BS conversations about nothing than the one about someone=20
asking for multihoming.
On a side note, cause someone does not multihome does not make them a=20
newbie.
Flame on....
Keith
Pando Networks
Brian Dickson wrote:
>
> Here's a suggestion - perhaps it should go to nanog-futures, not =
sure...
>
> Since newbies have to first subscribe before they can post...
>
> Why not have the subscription procedure include sending the newbie
> a link to a page with newbie-related material,
> much like the nanog page on tools and resources,
> or perhaps a wiki (so that other list members can update it,
> to minimize the impact to their mailing-list joy that newbies
> appear to cause)?
>
> Brian
>
>
