I have to agree... I joined this list a few weeks ago, and am pretty sad at the garbage I have to sift through. It's more of a FLAME Thrower if you ask me. I'm giving it another few days, and I'm off to looking for other lists that are much more useful than this deal here. Robert Hantson CTO/CIO - Network Operations QBOS, Inc. Dallas, TX -----Original Message----- From: owner-nanog@merit.edu [mailto:owner-nanog@merit.edu] On Behalf Of Richard A Steenbergen Sent: Thursday, August 17, 2006 3:15 PM To: Gadi Evron Cc: nanog@merit.edu Subject: Re: i am not a list moderator, but i do have a request On Thu, Aug 17, 2006 at 02:48:01PM -0500, Gadi Evron wrote:
Paul, apparently, we are in disagreement! :)
Botnets are an operational issue affecting most of every large carrier
moms&pops service provider here.
I believe a lot of the information about botnets, which is not that complex, is behind held in secret for no reason, and I release it when possible. ... This is probably one of the more active and interesting discussions in
to the
past year which are ON-TOPIC.
If this is all we have to talk about and it is on-topic, then NANOG has failed, and we need a new list where people can actually discuss network operations. -- Richard A Steenbergen <ras@e-gerbil.net> http://www.e-gerbil.net/ras GPG Key ID: 0xF8B12CBC (7535 7F59 8204 ED1F CC1C 53AF 4C41 5ECA F8B1 2CBC)