[124413] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Time for a lounge mailing list
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (kris foster)
Wed Mar 31 12:51:16 2010
From: kris foster <kris.foster@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <x2u2ad0f9f61003310925o5e900d4al87d1c0e09bb797e@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 31 Mar 2010 09:50:14 -0700
To: Jack Carrozzo <jack@crepinc.com>
Cc: NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
Everyone- this conversation should take place at =
nanog-futures@nanog.org. That list is for meta-discussions like this.
Thanks!
Kris
On Mar 31, 2010, at 9:25 AM, Jack Carrozzo wrote:
> 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)
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> -Jack Carrozzo
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> On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 12:19 PM, Brandon Galbraith
> <brandon.galbraith@gmail.com> wrote:
>> nanog-chat@nanog.org?
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>> On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 11:13 AM, Azinger, Marla <
>> marla.azinger@frontiercorp.com> wrote:
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>>> I'm sending this to the proper request email.
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>>> This is a decent idea that I support.
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>>> 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.
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>>> Cheers
>>> Marla Azinger
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>>> -----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
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>>> 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.
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>>> 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.
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>>> 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.
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>>> So how about it? lounge@nanog.org? offtopic@nanog.org?
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>> --
>> Brandon Galbraith
>> Voice: 630.492.0464
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