[63856] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: internet consumers forum?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu)
Sat Oct 11 12:56:10 2003
To: Richard Welty <rwelty@averillpark.net>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 11 Oct 2003 12:06:22 EDT."
<Mahogany-0.65.0-26184-20031011-120622.00@averillpark.net>
From: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
Date: Sat, 11 Oct 2003 12:55:24 -0400
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
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On Sat, 11 Oct 2003 12:06:22 EDT, Richard Welty <rwelty@averillpark.net> said:
> i've sent some time (at least 20 minutes) considering that while there are
> forums for operators and engineers to discuss issues (nanog, ietf, others
> too numerous to mention), there aren't really forums for informed consumers
> of internet services to exchange notes (or for uninformed consumers to
> become informed.)
There used to be Usenet, but then the spammers found it.
Remember that Nanog probably has *significant* market penetration - I'll hazard
a guess that at least 40-50% of the service providers in the US have at least one
person lurking here. Now consider the number of consumers of network services
in the US, and estimate what a 1% market penetration would be.
Ask yourself: How do I keep spammers out of a group that size? And if I don't
reach that size, what good am I really doing?
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