I had the same recollection. https://web.archive.org/web/20021209101350/https://nanog.org/listfaq.html Sent from my iPhone
On Nov 8, 2025, at 4:49 PM, William Herrin via NANOG <nanog@lists.nanog.org> wrote:
On Sat, Nov 8, 2025 at 1:00 PM Tom Beecher <beecher@beecher.cc> wrote:
I vaguely recall a rule on the mailing list, lightly enforced, that participants were expected to use their own real names. I believe the grounds for it was that this is a professional forum intended to facilitate discussion between professionals.
There is no such rule today, nor has there ever been one that I can ever remember.
Hi Tom,
Then I must be thinking of a different mailing list.
Nevertheless, while I agree that the words should matter more than the speaker, I think there's a degree of professionalism missing from anonymized messages and that matters too.
Regards, Bill Herrin
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