This list serves a number of purposes and one of them is to answer technical networking questions. But this list is also not the only place that these types of questions are asked. For instance, LinkedIn has a Q&A feature where people can ask and answer questions on a wide range of topics. Just today I came across this BGP question: http://www.linkedin.com/answers/technology/information-technology/computer-n... I would never suggest that LinkedIn could replace the NANOG mailing list, but it is an interesting complement to it. There is a NANOG group here: http://www.linkedin.com/groups?mostPopular=&gid=40718 and a number of people are using LinkedIn for professional purposes. I know many of you tried out Orkut and then migrated to Multiply.com and found them lacking. But I would suggest that LinkedIn might be more useful, in particular, to provide an entry level tier for questions. A lot of NANOG members are rather intimidated to ask questions which might seem too beginner and I think that the NANOG group on LinkedIn might be a good place to encourage such questions in order to draw out more discussion among NANOG members without boosting the mailing list traffic. What do you think? (Probably best to answer this on the NANOG group over at... --Michael Dillon http://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=13566587