On Mon, Jul 28, 1997 at 05:11:01PM -0700, George Herbert wrote:
Jay writes:
Would an administrator of this list please compose and post a message defining in precise terms what topic areas are on- and off-topic for the NANOG mailing list?
IMHO:
The key problem here is people not understanding what "operational and technical" means in common parlance, I think. Is InterNIC crashing an operational problem? Yes. Is InterNIC not responding for some time an operational problem? Maybe... Until you know why they crashed, it's definitely on topic to be trying to figure out why and how, if it's affecting operations.
Is it still an operational or technical problem weeks later? No.
InterNIC's failures and flaws are fodder for a number of other mailing lists related to DNS policy discussions among others. Except as is operationally relevant, however, they're not appropriate for NANOG. They generally are only operationally relevant when something breaks, until it's fixed.
Damn. An _answer_. And it's even a good one. Thanks, George. (Course, it _is_ worthy of note that David reopened the topic. :-) Cheers, -- jra -- Jay R. Ashworth jra@baylink.com Member of the Technical Staff Unsolicited Commercial Emailers Sued The Suncoast Freenet "People propose, science studies, technology Tampa Bay, Florida conforms." -- Dr. Don Norman +1 813 790 7592