On Oct 31, 2006, at 3:45 PM, Rick Wesson wrote:
the point of the posting are to generate discussion;
I believe there are those who would argue that there's already a surfeit of discussion on NANOG, quite a bit of it irrelevant and of little interest to many subscribers. Posting stats and reports to a list which contains people who may not be interested in same often results in those stats and reports being filtered out and ignored. Posting a pointer to said stats and lists so that interested parties can subscribe if they so choose guarantees a community of common interests to whom discussion of the topic(s) at hand will come naturally, without the need for artificial stimulus. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Roland Dobbins <rdobbins@cisco.com> // 408.527.6376 voice Any information security mechanism, process, or procedure which can be consistently defeated by the successful application of a single class of attacks must be considered fatally flawed. -- The Lucy Van Pelt Principle of Secure Systems Design