[92485] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: tech support being flooded due to IE 0day
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Michael.Dillon@btradianz.com)
Fri Sep 22 05:25:32 2006
In-Reply-To: <20060922051644.GW31130@gerbil.cluepon.net>
To: nanog@merit.edu
From: Michael.Dillon@btradianz.com
Date: Fri, 22 Sep 2006 10:22:52 +0100
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
> To the people who say we throw in the towel and just say "Gadi will
never
> stop posting off-topic crap, so why bother trying to correct him?", I'd
> suggest that this is a self-defeating attitude. Not only because Gadi
> could actually be posting useful stuff if set on the right path as to
what
> is appropriate and what is not, but because 10,000 other people are
going
> to be reading that post and thinking that this is appropriate subject
> matter. One off-topic post you can delete, but an entire list which has
> been co-opted by off-topic material can not be fixed.
I agree with you 100%. Please give us your list of *ALL*
the topics that you think are appropriate for this list.
--Michael Dillon
P.S. Note that I do not agree that anyone has yet tried
to "correct" Gadi. All I have seen is bellyaching on a
personal level, i.e. person A does not like person B's message.
To set everyone on the right path we need a description
of the path itself.
