[92626] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Outages mailing list
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alexander Harrowell)
Fri Sep 29 10:55:43 2006
Date: Fri, 29 Sep 2006 15:54:50 +0100
From: "Alexander Harrowell" <a.harrowell@gmail.com>
To: "Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu" <Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu>
Cc: "Niels Bakker" <niels=nanog@bakker.net>, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <200609291446.k8TEkIgj002799@turing-police.cc.vt.edu>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
Presumably, if you find you can't reach the outages list because their
listserv has had an outage, you just come up on NANOG like before?
On 9/29/06, Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu <Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu> wrote:
> On Fri, 29 Sep 2006 01:32:35 +0200, Niels Bakker said:
> > Gadi's tactics in a nutshell:
> >
> > 1) develop a long-term habit of posting off-topic stuff to nanog
> > 2) get called on it repeatedly
>
> OK, for the purposes of this discussion, we'll postulate that in fact,
> the posting was indeed off-topic...
>
> > 3) challenge what's supposed to be "on-topic" for the mailing list anyway
> > 4) start a new mailing list in an attempt to take real content away from nanog
>
> But if he takes the supposedly off-topic stuff away, what "real" content
> is he taking away? You can't have it both ways. If it's sufficiently
> "real" that you're concerned about it being taken to a different list,
> you shouldn't have labelled it off-topic earlier.
>
> > Don't fall for it, people.
>
> Don't fall for what?
>
>
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