Time for a lounge mailing list

kris foster kris.foster at gmail.com
Wed Mar 31 16:50:14 UTC 2010


Everyone- this conversation should take place at nanog-futures at nanog.org. That list is for meta-discussions like this.

Thanks!

Kris

On Mar 31, 2010, at 9:25 AM, Jack Carrozzo wrote:

> 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?
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>> 
>> 
>> --
>> Brandon Galbraith
>> Voice: 630.492.0464
>> 
> 





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