[54693] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: OT. - The end of inet-access
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Andy Dills)
Mon Jan 13 17:05:08 2003
Date: Mon, 13 Jan 2003 17:04:35 -0500 (EST)
From: Andy Dills <andy@xecu.net>
To: JC Dill <nanog@vo.cnchost.com>
Cc: nanog <nanog@merit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <4.2.0.58.20030113133134.01b531d0@127.0.0.1>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
On Mon, 13 Jan 2003, JC Dill wrote:
>
> At 11:51 AM 01/13/2003 -0900, you wrote:
> >
> >Just wondering if anyone here has some info ?
> >Any idea if the final nail is in inet-access ?
>
> If there is a rumor going around that the end of inet-access is near,
> someone forgot to tell me anything about it. The inet-access list is alive
> and well, with ~1000 subscribers, and over 100 posts so far in January
> 2003. (I know, that's a low number when compared to nanog, but then again
> we tend to stay on-topic a bit more over there.)
I think the primary problem is that a lot of people were subscribed
through twistedpair.ca, which was a redistributer of the list (i.e. you
would subscribe to inet-access@mx.twistedpair.ca, and get the
list@inet-access.net mails).
They're also the primary result when searching for "inet-access archives"
on google. It appears that sometime in september, they got unsubscribed
from inet-access, and as a result, people who were subscribed through
them, and people who follow along through the archives (like myself), were
given the impression it was completely dead.
As for inet-access being more on-topic than NANOG, that's only because the
scope of NANOG is much more narrow. On inet-access, you're only off topic
if you're not talking about issues related to providing internet access.
Another possible reason inet-access is more on-topic is because JC's ten
times more dictatorial than Susan. She doesn't care if you've been posting
for 7 years, if you annoy her, you're gone unless you do what she tells
you to. But I'm bitter and biased...mea culpa.
Andy
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