[124394] in North American Network Operators' Group
Time for a lounge mailing list
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Daniel Senie)
Wed Mar 31 11:47:26 2010
From: Daniel Senie <dts@senie.com>
Date: Wed, 31 Mar 2010 11:46:34 -0400
To: NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
It's been clear for a very long time that the NANOG crowd likes to =
socialize. At NANOGs, social settings are where connections are made, =
beers consumed, sometimes scuba dives shared or other local attractions =
explored. It is certainly a good thing, and fosters much useful =
discussion among peers who become friends.
That said, the nanog@nanog.org mailing list often is overrun with =
non-operational discussion. Certainly there are some good examples =
today, such as job titles, or arguing about the best way to rid the list =
of a troll.
Creation of a second mailing list to handle non-operational, social =
traffic for the nanog crowd would be one way to keep the main list on =
topic. Might even boost productivity, as folks could more easily defer =
reading and responding to the non-operational stuff until their =
off-hours.
So how about it? lounge@nanog.org? offtopic@nanog.org?
