On Mon, Mar 22, 2021 at 9:16 AM Karl Auer <kauer@biplane.com.au> wrote:
Without a word of exaggeration, it operates as if the developers had never seen a working mailing list. Quoting, signatures, sender addresses, reply-to addresses, HTTP vs text, archiving, threading, configuration - you name it, they screwed it up. Not in minor ways either.
Let me begin by stating that I prefer to participate via mail, and I understand all of these things just fine. However, I must point out that none of these things have the slightest bit to do with network engineering, aside from the fact that people on NANOG-L seem to expect you to understand them. It seems to me that the goal of the board is to allow participation by people who are skilled network engineers but do not care about HTML mail, top posting, or any of this other stuff that only seems to ever come up on this list. And I agree with that idea. And as a final aside (not directed at you, Karl), lots of people on this list seem to try to dunk on email clients that don't support killfiles. In fact, I don't think such a thing exists. Even Gmail, one of the most widely used email services, supports this. They just call it "mute" and you do it by pressing 'm' on your keyboard. However, lots of email clients exist that can't properly read HTML mail or top-posted replies. Maybe people should stop using these incapable clients and switch to something at least as capable as Gmail. Then there would be no need for anyone on NANOG-L to understand these idiosyncrasies. -- Hunter Fuller (they) Router Jockey VBH Annex B-5 +1 256 824 5331 Office of Information Technology The University of Alabama in Huntsville Network Engineering