[92620] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: Outages mailing list
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Andrew Kirch)
Thu Sep 28 15:53:46 2006
Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2006 15:51:26 -0400
From: "Andrew Kirch" <AKirch@AllThingsIT.com>
To: "Albert Meyer" <from_nanog@corenap.com>,
"William Allen Simpson" <william.allen.simpson@gmail.com>
Cc: "NANOG" <nanog@merit.edu>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-nanog@merit.edu [mailto:owner-nanog@merit.edu] On Behalf
Of
> Albert Meyer
> Sent: Thursday, September 28, 2006 3:45 PM
> To: William Allen Simpson
> Cc: NANOG
> Subject: Re: Outages mailing list
>=20
>=20
> William Allen Simpson wrote:
> >
> > Don't forget to CC all the traffic to NANOG list.
>=20
> Please don't do that. We don't need more pontification from Gadi. This
new
> separate list sounds like a great idea, if only because it will
distract
> him
> from NANOG-L. I don't post much but I read NANOG-L for the operational
> content,
> and the off-topic posts generated by Gadi and his
supporters/detractors
> significantly reduce the SNR. I've been sending him private emails
asking
> him to
> stop polluting NANOG-L for some time, but those emails have had no
effect,
> nor
> have the numerous public requests posted to the list by others. Hoping
> that
> another list will entice him away seems to be our only hope, and
> forwarding that
> list here would defeat the purpose.
So, the jist of your argument is "hey everybody! Lets create a new list
so I don't have to maintain a killfile!"
<sarcasm>This seems like an intelligent suggestion to me!</sarcasm>
Please take the time to invest in a killfile. It will save you from
listening to their pontificating, and us from listening to you whine.
Andrew
