At 10:34 2/24/99 -0500, you wrote:
On Wed, 24 Feb 1999, Brandon Applegate wrote:
Would a question about GateD with OSPF be off topic for the list ??
Yes
I disagree. The main reason I personally read this list is to listen and learn. It would be a sad state of affairs if an operational or technical question was off-topic, don't you think ?
There are other lists where gated is discussed; an excellent way to find them is to start at http://www.gated.org/, as was suggested by Nathan Stratton. This list is supposed to be primarily about *interprovider* issues.
From the mailing list charter/AUP:
The NANOG mailing list is established to provide a forum for the exchange of technical information and the discussion of specific implementation issues that require cooperation among network service providers. That last clause is the important one: "that require cooperation among network service providers." There's probably nothing about gated with OSPF that requires cooperation among network service providers, so the assumption that the post would be off-topic *for NANOG* is valid. This isn't entirely about keeping such traffic off NANOG, either; the gated lists are MUCH more likely to provide help in the area of "gated with OSPF." Stephen