On Mon, Nov 02, 1998 at 11:57:18PM -0700, Forrest W. Christian wrote:
The problem I see is that there doesn't seem to be any real concensus on what is a valid point of discussion on the list.
For me, outages are a useful topic of discussion. Since I'm not involved in the management of backbones or WAN's, some discussion threads related to that type of issue are not interesting to me. I do take interest in the discussion of routing protocols, since I find a lot of the routing discussions to be educational. But there are many others who disagree with me.
There seems to be some (randy?) that basically feel that if you can't configure a router to do it it doesn't belong here... Meaning that this forum should be primarily about technical operation issues.
Yes. "Operational" is a word used a lot to describe the type of post that belongs here.
On the other hand, there are those among us that when the subject of router configuration comes up, usually in the context of the right way(tm) to do BGP configuration, they yell and scream that this doesn't belong here it should be elsewhere.
Of course, then you hear complaints about people announcing routes they shouldn't be, etc, etc. Well, is there a mailing list for the discussion of the proper way to set up BGP? If not, it could be argued that some of the discussions you mention belong here. -- Steve Sobol [sjsobol@nacs.net] Part-time Support Droid [support@nacs.net] NACS Spaminator [abuse@nacs.net] Spotted on a bumper sticker: "Possum. The other white meat."