[124407] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Time for a lounge mailing list
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jack Carrozzo)
Wed Mar 31 12:27:56 2010
In-Reply-To: <y2u366100671003310919q80e2024ar6a3d21ab895bedaa@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 31 Mar 2010 12:25:13 -0400
From: Jack Carrozzo <jack@crepinc.com>
To: Brandon Galbraith <brandon.galbraith@gmail.com>
Cc: "nanog-support@merit.edu" <nanog-support@merit.edu>,
NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
lounge is good - off topic seems to say that *no* operational content
will be discussed, whereas with "lounge" we can simply move long
threads most people don't care about over there (ie: trolling, TDM,
etc)
-Jack Carrozzo
On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 12:19 PM, Brandon Galbraith
<brandon.galbraith@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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?
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>
>
> --
> Brandon Galbraith
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