I think moderating the group might not be such a bad idea. The only problem with this would be getting someone who had enough time to actually moderate the list. I don't know what is going on lately, but it seems egos and animosity are running rampant on both inet-access and nanog. I have been caught up in it myself, and for that I apologize.
There is some value to NANOG ... value that is currently lost ... for things like semi-urgent notifications of what is going on. Yet for many issues there is a lot that people here want to talk about, sometime with each other, sometimes just _at_ each other, yet talk they must. I would not want to bog NANOG down with a moderator (or is that bog a moderator down with NANOG?). My suggestion would be to have a forum, or maybe an alternate mailing list, called "NANOG-BOF" (alias "NANOG-BOG") where one "side issues" can be discussed. Then it would be easy to just take dragging issues to there. If it were a web forum I would participate. If it were a mailing list I would not. I prefer to keep my mailbox lean for important stuff. -- -- *-----------------------------* Phil Howard KA9WGN * -- -- | Inturnet, Inc. | Director of Internet Services | -- -- | Business Internet Solutions | eng at intur.net | -- -- *-----------------------------* philh at intur.net * --