Perhaps it's time to think about enhancements to the NANOG list...?

Thu Mar 18 22:28:31 UTC 2021

On Thu, Mar 18, 2021 at 10:37 AM Tom Beecher <beecher at beecher.cc> wrote:

> CC back to the mailing list for visibility, since I ate the CC list.
>
> On Thu, Mar 18, 2021 at 1:31 PM Tom Beecher <beecher at beecher.cc> wrote:
>
>> Rod-
>>
>> Please refer to the usage guidelines found here.
>> https://nanog.org/resources/usage-guidelines/
>>
>> 14. Posts that encourage or facilitate an agreement about the following
>>> subjects are inappropriate: prices, discounts, or terms or conditions of
>>> sale; salaries; benefits, profits, profit margins, or cost data; market
>>> shares, sales territories, or markets; allocation of customers or
>>> territories; or selection, rejection, or termination of customers or
>>> suppliers.
>>
>>
>>  I would tend to agree that while most of your posts to the list are
>> within the guidelines, there have been occasions where a reasonable person
>> could think you might be skirting the line a bit. In this case :
>>
>> - Your company works as a broker to procure capacity for others.
>> - You sent an email to the list that wording wise would be exactly the
>> same as many of us might send to someone they were looking for capacity
>> from.
>>
>> I think most would agree this is pretty clearly against both the usage
>> guidelines and the spirit of what this mailing list is about.
>>
>> I would also like to remind you that this list is administered by the
>> NANOG organization. You have no authority to tell others to 'cease and
>> desist', and insult someone as 'underemployed' is also not well tolerated
>> here.
>>
>> I have looped in the list admins here. It would probably be a good idea
>> to refrain from future messages that are clearly commercial in nature, or
>> that contain unnecessary insults.
>>
>

If only we had some way to segregate out different topics
of interest or disinterest, so that people who weren't interested
in questions about bandwidth availability could unsubscribe
from those topics, and only subscribe to the topics that *did*
interest them...

#AFewDaysTooEarly

^_^;;

Matt
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