On Tue, Jul 22, 1997 at 08:48:47PM -0400, Craig La Vallee wrote:
Paul Ferguson wrote:
NANOG list maintainers: Please consider this a formal request to moderate this list. The signal/noise ratio is horrible as it is, and continuing to ignore off-topic posts, such as the thread on DNS policy, is compounding the issue. I would appreciate a response on this issue asap. Otherwise, I would fully expect to see an exodus of list participants who can no longer tolerate noise.
At 07:40 PM 07/22/97 -0400, Jay R. Ashworth wrote:
Perhaps the thread has drifted off topic. But get off your goddamned high horse and save us the snotty rejoinders, all right?
Thank you for the intervention Paul.
Gentlemen: I didn't start the thread everyone is complaining about. But, in absence of a formal announcement of what is and is not on-topic on this mailing list, _which I still haven't seen, after 4 explicit requests_, I completely agree: a solution needs to be found. The high-handedness with which the conversations have been handled of late is, however not conducive to finding a solution, and will ultimately cause those with valid topics to discus-- including the opertaional aspects of DNS spoofing, and how to avoid it... _and_ how to fix it, which is surely an operational topic, and is not a conversation with a short term focus by nature--to decide that the NANOG mailing list is a useless old-boy network, and replace it with something that suits the needs of those individuals. If you don't like the signal to noise ratio, by all means: DEFINE SIGNAL. Cheers, -- jra -- Jay R. Ashworth High Technology Systems Consulting Ashworth Designer Linux: Where Do You Want To Fly Today? & Associates ka1fjx/4 Crack. It does a body good. +1 813 790 7592 jra@baylink.com http://rc5.distributed.net NIC: jra3