[124405] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Time for a lounge mailing list
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Brandon Galbraith)
Wed Mar 31 12:22:37 2010
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Date: Wed, 31 Mar 2010 11:19:02 -0500
From: Brandon Galbraith <brandon.galbraith@gmail.com>
To: "Azinger, Marla" <marla.azinger@frontiercorp.com>
Cc: "nanog-support@merit.edu" <nanog-support@merit.edu>,
NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org>
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nanog-chat@nanog.org?
On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 11:13 AM, Azinger, Marla <
marla.azinger@frontiercorp.com> wrote:
> 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 current
> email list.
>
> Cheers
> Marla Azinger
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Daniel Senie [mailto:dts@senie.com]
> 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
> 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?
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