[124402] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: Time for a lounge mailing list
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Azinger, Marla)
Wed Mar 31 12:15:28 2010
From: "Azinger, Marla" <marla.azinger@frontiercorp.com>
To: Daniel Senie <dts@senie.com>, NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org>,
"nanog-support@merit.edu" <nanog-support@merit.edu>
Date: Wed, 31 Mar 2010 12:13:39 -0400
In-Reply-To: <69EB4F4C-0736-4A09-AEFF-71E527595F8D@senie.com>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
I'm sending this to the proper request email.
This is a decent idea that I support.
NANOG Crew please read the below email and consider establishing a separate=
"socializing" email address so operational topics only exist on the curren=
t email list.
Cheers
Marla Azinger
-----Original Message-----
From: Daniel Senie [mailto:dts@senie.com]=20
Sent: Wednesday, March 31, 2010 8:47 AM
To: NANOG list
Subject: Time for a lounge mailing list
It's been clear for a very long time that the NANOG crowd likes to socializ=
e. At NANOGs, social settings are where connections are made, beers consume=
d, 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-opera=
tional discussion. Certainly there are some good examples today, such as jo=
b 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 resp=
onding to the non-operational stuff until their off-hours.
So how about it? lounge@nanog.org? offtopic@nanog.org?
