[22406] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: What is NANOG used for? (Was Re: Exodus?)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Derek Balling)
Sun Jan 3 17:44:06 1999
Date: Sun, 03 Jan 1999 14:07:48 -0800
To: Jon Green <jcgreen@netins.net>
From: Derek Balling <dredd@megacity.org>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <199901032154.PAA25734@worf.netins.net>
At 03:54 PM 1/3/99 -0600, Jon Green wrote:
>Considering that his problems were isolated to Exodus clients, yes, it's
>off-topic. Small network outages happen every day, and I don't think
>we need to hear about them all. IMHO, what DOES belong on this list are
>discussions of network design, router configuration, LARGE SCALE outages,
>emerging Internet technologies, and general knowledge-sharing of how to
>build better networks. It's not a mailing list for end users to say "I
>can't reach www.something.com, but before I report it to my ISP or to the
>far-end ISP I wanted to see if anyone else sees my problem." If that is
>what the list continues to turn into, I for one will be unsubscribing, because
>that is useless to me.
I agree that "every little outage" isn't the purview of this list. It just
seems like we have more messages on this list lately discussing what
should/should-not be talked about than we do about "real" topics.
This particular case may be more obviously "off-topic", but the reality is
that it just seems (seems mind you) like a disproportionate amount of our
traffic is complaining about other traffic.
Dunno...
D
