[92509] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Topicality and audiences [was Re: tech support being flooded
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Laurence F. Sheldon, Jr.)
Sat Sep 23 10:37:42 2006
Date: Sat, 23 Sep 2006 09:36:43 -0500
From: "Laurence F. Sheldon, Jr." <LarrySheldon@cox.net>
To: NANOG <nanog@merit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <20060923042523.GJ31130@gerbil.cluepon.net>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
It doesn't matter who wrote:
> If you don't find network operations to be relevant, then by all
> means STOP POSTING TO THE GOD DAMNED NETWORK OPERATIONS MAILING LIST.
> Some of those, particularly those who *gasp* run networks, still find
> it relevent. If there is this much disagreement about your posts,
> maybe you should find a different place to make them.
In spite of repeated rants like this one (I'm too tired and lazy to
disguise the author of it further, the particular author here is not
important), the problem is not "What kind of list is NANOG?" It really
isn't. I don't think a strong case that many active posters here are
confused about that it really hard to make. There really ought to be a
moratorium on the question of what kind of a list is NANOG.
The question has always been, in my my mind, "What the hell does
"Operations" mean to the participants here. (I have on several
occasions said what I think it means to others, I'll spare me the agony
of doing that again just now.)
I have for years incorrectly assumed (nay, insisted) that "Operations
topics" include just about everything that has to do with operating a
network or networks, or network of networks.
I don't think it includes the mindless, repetitive, numbing harassment
of somebody that has an issue affecting his or her operation that either
needs help, or wants to share a lesson learned.
Frankly, a scholarly analysis of the archives (edited or not) would
show, I'll bet, that there are more items about what is on topic than
there are about any other subject-group.
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