<div dir="ltr"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">Are you saying the very org that brings us together, is not allowed to spur discussion based on newsletter content and cannot provide us with updates and/or reminders about various things?<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>I don't believe anyone is making that argument at all. </div><div><br></div><div>The published usage guidelines are what the organization, via the membership, decided they should be. Those guidelines are clear that on THIS mailing list (nanog@) , marketing initiatives aren't allowed.There is no exception that says 'except for our own marketing'. </div><div><br></div><div>This list is for 'operational and technical content only'. We can't ban people for trying to sneak marketing stuff through here (and we have) , and then turn right around and do it ourselves. </div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sat, Sep 9, 2023 at 12:48 PM Ryan Hamel <<a href="mailto:ryan@rkhtech.org">ryan@rkhtech.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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<div dir="auto">How is it a private marketing initiative exactly if the links go to stories on NANOG's website? Are you saying the very org that brings us together, is not allowed to spur discussion based on newsletter content and cannot provide us with updates
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<div dir="auto">Y'all have been making a mountain out of a molehill.</div>
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<strong>Sent:</strong> Saturday, September 9, 2023 9:30:13 AM<br>
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<div dir="auto">Marketing email doesn’t belong on an operational list. Even if its NANOG marketing itself. (Ack Kentik non involvement). </div>
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<div>The NANOG Mailing List Usage Guidelines ( <a href="https://www.nanog.org/resources/usage-guidelines/" target="_blank">
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<span style="font-size:medium;color:rgb(0,0,0)">Posts to NANOG’s Mailing List should be focused on operational and technical content only, as described by the </span><a style="font-size:medium;box-sizing:border-box;border-width:0px;border-style:solid;border-color:rgb(229,231,235);text-decoration:inherit">NANOG
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<div dir="auto">Marketing email doesn’t belong on an operational list. Even if its NANOG marketing itself. (Ack Kentik non involvement). </div>
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<div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, Sep 8, 2023 at 20:52 Ryan Hamel <<a href="mailto:ryan@rkhtech.org" target="_blank">ryan@rkhtech.org</a>> wrote:<br>
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You're right, the problem is not technical. It's a choice to click the links or not. NANOG does not have to sanitize links for you. Those emails do not have to be read, and no one is stopping you from filtering them out. For you to say, "my privacy has been
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<b style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Sent:</b> Friday, September 8, 2023 5:25 PM<br>
<b style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">To:</b> John Gilmore <<a href="mailto:gnu@toad.com" style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif" target="_blank">gnu@toad.com</a>><br>
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nanog@nanog.org</a> <<a href="mailto:nanog@nanog.org" style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif" target="_blank">nanog@nanog.org</a>><br>
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> It is totally possible to turn off the spyware in MailChimp. You just<br>
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> "free" service. To save $13 or $20 per month, you are instead selling<br>
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nanog management has made a very intentional decision to sell my<br>
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