spammed by a hardware resale outfit...

Mon Mar 3 16:56:36 UTC 2008

Christopher Morrow wrote:

> On Mon, Mar 3, 2008 at 11:01 AM, Robert E. Seastrom <rs at seastrom.com> wrote:
> 
> 
>> I'm beginning to think that nanog.cluepon.net needs "good guys" and
>> "bad guys" pages so that we can all make doubly sure we're not doing
>> business with spammers (and just as importantly, a community resource
>> for reviews of used equipment vendors).  Thoughts?

> I like the idea of a 'these guys were good to me' page, I'd be a
> little hesitant (yes, lame) to call out folks unless someone's ready
> to deal with the 1:1000 crazy that says someone on cluepon slandered
> them (libel? I always get them backwards).

I like the idea for a page that recommends folk, but would suggest 
dating the comments (so that someone who *used* to be good doesn't have 
the same cachet as the person who got added yesterday). There'd also be 
the need to make sure, somehow, that recommendations were not (shall we 
say) motivated by something other than altruism.

On the other hand, there doesn't need to be a bad guys page.  The 
archives are public, and mirrored multiple times. Google and Yahoo will 
provide that service for you, free of charge.

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