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

Eric Kuhnke eric.kuhnke at gmail.com
Thu Mar 18 23:43:41 UTC 2021


Perhaps the sales, marketing and 'business development' people who've never
typed "enable" or "configure" into a router a single day in their lives
might be better served with a dedicated list that is mission focused on
bizdev, and not operational issues.



On Thu, Mar 18, 2021 at 3:29 PM Matthew Petach <mpetach at netflight.com>
wrote:

>
> 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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