why not confine the effort to the one need that seems
to clearly exist: a place for network engineers to solicit vendors of
the goods and services that network engineers buy?

If there's a real need for that ( which my voicemail and email might say is debatable :) ) , then someone could start that, but I do not think NANOG itself should.  Biz-dev is not the stated mission of the organization. 

On Mon, Mar 22, 2021 at 12:52 PM William Herrin <bill@herrin.us> wrote:
On Sat, Mar 20, 2021 at 8:56 AM Mike Hammett <nanog@ics-il.net> wrote:
> That seems like a reasonable proposal. NANOG-OffTopic, NANOG-Discuss, NANOG-BizDev, NANOG-xyz, something (more more than one something).

Hi Mike,

This conversation started because someone got called to carpet for
soliciting a vendor on the main list. Rather than guessing at how to
split up topics, why not confine the effort to the one need that seems
to clearly exist: a place for network engineers to solicit vendors of
the goods and services that network engineers buy?

Regards,
Bill Herrin

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