michael.dillon@bt.com wrote:
Sounds like he's used to used IRC, not mailing lists. There used to be an IRC channel where a lot of NANOG folks hung out. Anyone care to publicize the channel name and which IRC network carries it?
--Michael Dillon
from the nanog mailing list... From: "Tim Brown" <> To: "Matthew McGehrin" <> Cc: <> Sent: Tuesday, June 22, 2004 12:17 PM Subject: Re: real-time DDoS help?
First and foremost, the #nanog IRC channel has absolutely nothing to do with the nanog mailing list, other than it shares some common personalities. Operational discussion is rarely experienced, the most often-experienced relevant question is "how do I configure BGP", and Secondly and perhaps most notably, IRC is in no way, shape, or form a protocol or communications method one would describe as resilient or operationally relevant. Neither are the instant messaging networks or Jabber servers. IRC does not meet the "needs" of operators. Describing these needs is a separate topic and probably not appropriate for this mailing list, even though you could describe the topic as operationally relevant.