Time for a lounge mailing list

Jack Carrozzo jack at crepinc.com
Wed Mar 31 16:25:13 UTC 2010


lounge is good - off topic seems to say that *no* operational content
will be discussed, whereas with "lounge" we can simply move long
threads most people don't care about over there (ie: trolling, TDM,
etc)

-Jack Carrozzo

On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 12:19 PM, Brandon Galbraith
<brandon.galbraith at gmail.com> wrote:
> nanog-chat at nanog.org?
>
> On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 11:13 AM, Azinger, Marla <
> marla.azinger at frontiercorp.com> wrote:
>
>> I'm sending this to the proper request email.
>>
>> This is a decent idea that I support.
>>
>> NANOG Crew please read the below email and consider establishing a separate
>> "socializing" email address so operational topics only exist on the current
>> email list.
>>
>> Cheers
>> Marla Azinger
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Daniel Senie [mailto:dts at senie.com]
>> Sent: Wednesday, March 31, 2010 8:47 AM
>> To: NANOG list
>> Subject: Time for a lounge mailing list
>>
>> It's been clear for a very long time that the NANOG crowd likes to
>> socialize. At NANOGs, social settings are where connections are made, beers
>> consumed, sometimes scuba dives shared or other local attractions explored.
>> It is certainly a good thing, and fosters much useful discussion among peers
>> who become friends.
>>
>> That said, the nanog at nanog.org mailing list often is overrun with
>> non-operational discussion. Certainly there are some good examples today,
>> such as job titles, or arguing about the best way to rid the list of a
>> troll.
>>
>> Creation of a second mailing list to handle non-operational, social traffic
>> for the nanog crowd would be one way to keep the main list on topic. Might
>> even boost productivity, as folks could more easily defer reading and
>> responding to the non-operational stuff until their off-hours.
>>
>> So how about it? lounge at nanog.org? offtopic at nanog.org?
>>
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> Brandon Galbraith
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