[137574] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: To the people who answer tech questions on this list
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Brandon Kim)
Wed Feb 16 22:18:37 2011
From: Brandon Kim <brandon.kim@brandontek.com>
To: <wavetossed@googlemail.com>, nanog group <nanog@nanog.org>
Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2011 22:18:33 -0500
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I'm never afraid to ask a question=2C just as long as I've done my homework=
(due diligence)
and not using this group to do work for me.=20
Believe me=2C this group has helped me tremendously.=20
As for LinkedIN=2C I have nothing against=2C it=2C but I don't use it. I do=
n't have an account on it
and not sure I ever want to. I'm already slightly on facebook=2C and very a=
ctive on twitter=2C
so nothing against linkedin=2C but there's just too many social media websi=
tes to keep track of....
Perhaps one day I will give it a try.....
=3D)
Brandon
> Date: Wed=2C 16 Feb 2011 19:03:59 -0800
> Subject: To the people who answer tech questions on this list
> From: wavetossed@googlemail.com
> To: nanog@nanog.org
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> This list serves a number of purposes and one of them is to answer
> technical networking questions. But this list is also not the only
> place that these types of questions are asked. For instance=2C LinkedIn
> has a Q&A feature where people can ask and answer questions on a wide
> range of topics. Just today I came across this BGP question:
> http://www.linkedin.com/answers/technology/information-technology/compute=
r-networking/TCH_ITS_CNW/792993-20766406
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> I would never suggest that LinkedIn could replace the NANOG mailing
> list=2C but it is an interesting complement to it. There is a NANOG
> group here: http://www.linkedin.com/groups?mostPopular=3D&gid=3D40718 and
> a number of people are using LinkedIn for professional purposes. I
> know many of you tried out Orkut and then migrated to Multiply.com and
> found them lacking. But I would suggest that LinkedIn might be more
> useful=2C in particular=2C to provide an entry level tier for questions.
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> A lot of NANOG members are rather intimidated to ask questions which
> might seem too beginner and I think that the NANOG group on LinkedIn
> might be a good place to encourage such questions in order to draw out
> more discussion among NANOG members without boosting the mailing list
> traffic.
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> What do you think? (Probably best to answer this on the NANOG group over=
at...
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> --Michael Dillon
> http://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=3D13566587
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