[76189] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: [OT] Re: Banned on NANOG
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (JC Dill)
Fri Dec 3 01:33:49 2004
Date: Thu, 02 Dec 2004 22:32:37 -0800
From: JC Dill <lists04@equinephotoart.com>
To: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <Pine.WNT.4.61.0412030009560.644@vanadium.hq.nac.net>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
Alex Rubenstein wrote:
> We're not in school, we don't need suspensions. We need to act like
> adults, use this list for it's intended purpose. If someone is a dodo
> for a message or two here or there, then, well, we tolerate it and
> move on, maybe someone on the list sends that person an email saying,
> "Dude, your email was dopey, please stop." If the person continues to
> be a dodo, get rid of the problem. It's as simple as that. I think we
> all agree that RAS and Randy don't fall into the above category of
> having to be gotten ridden of. Again, it's all relative.
>
> So, go ahead and ask, "But, that won't work, will it?"
>
> My rebutt: It's how inet-access (people from 1993 to 2000 or so will
> know what this is) worked, and, well, except for the very occasional
> whack-job, it worked well. It was a useful list. The reason it died
Rumors of inet-access's death are greatly exaggerated. It's quieter
now, but it's not dead, we had 168 posts in the past 3 months, so an
average of about 2 a day. It tends to come in a bursty fashion, quiet
for a few days, then someone posts a question and there is a flurry of
replies.
> had nothing to do with S:N on that list; it had to do with the fact
> that the industry supporting that list more or less evaporated.
Very true, there are far fewer ISPs (especially small ISPs) today.
Subscription numbers to the inet-access list have been falling steadily
since the dot.bomb. Many people who used to work at ISPs now work for
vendors or other non-ISP companies and have left the list (or are just
lurking these days).
List subscription info at:
<http://inet-access.net/mailman/listinfo/list>
jc
