[21111] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: time for a new list?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Phil Howard)
Tue Nov 3 22:15:59 1998
From: Phil Howard <phil@whistler.intur.net>
To: jshaw@insync.net (Joe Shaw)
Date: Tue, 3 Nov 1998 21:02:35 -0600 (CST)
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <Pine.SOL.4.05.9811022054310.10557-100000@vellocet.insync.net> from "Joe Shaw" at Nov 2, 98 09:01:37 pm
> I think moderating the group might not be such a bad idea. The only
> problem with this would be getting someone who had enough time to actually
> moderate the list. I don't know what is going on lately, but it seems
> egos and animosity are running rampant on both inet-access and nanog. I
> have been caught up in it myself, and for that I apologize.
There is some value to NANOG ... value that is currently lost ... for things
like semi-urgent notifications of what is going on. Yet for many issues
there is a lot that people here want to talk about, sometime with each other,
sometimes just _at_ each other, yet talk they must. I would not want to bog
NANOG down with a moderator (or is that bog a moderator down with NANOG?).
My suggestion would be to have a forum, or maybe an alternate mailing list,
called "NANOG-BOF" (alias "NANOG-BOG") where one "side issues" can be
discussed. Then it would be easy to just take dragging issues to there.
If it were a web forum I would participate. If it were a mailing list I
would not. I prefer to keep my mailbox lean for important stuff.
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