[124400] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Time for a lounge mailing list
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Marshall Eubanks)
Wed Mar 31 12:07:08 2010
From: Marshall Eubanks <tme@americafree.tv>
To: Daniel Senie <dts@senie.com>
In-Reply-To: <69EB4F4C-0736-4A09-AEFF-71E527595F8D@senie.com>
Date: Wed, 31 Mar 2010 12:06:23 -0400
Cc: NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Mar 31, 2010, at 11:46 AM, Daniel Senie wrote:
> 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?
>
>
The IETF has found an "attendees" list useful.
Marshall
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