Paul, It is my opinion that one has the power to self-moderate quite effectively. Procmail enables one to delete the ramblings of noiseful posters, while still preserving the amusement so many serious networking folk gain from nanog. 'man procmail' The joy of this internet thing we've created is that we can selectively enforce the ear-plugging. I don't think moderation is appropriate. -alan

From owner-nanog@merit.edu Tue Jul 22 22:45:50 1997 X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 3.0.3 (32) Date: Tue, 22 Jul 1997 20:24:55 -0400 To: nanog@merit.edu From: Paul Ferguson <pferguso@cisco.com> Subject: Re: Quote from Kashpureff / Re: question about per. hack

NANOG list maintainers: Please consider this a formal request to moderate this list. The signal/noise ratio is horrible as it is, and continuing to ignore off-topic posts, such as the thread on DNS policy, is compounding the issue. I would appreciate a response on this issue asap. Otherwise, I would fully expect to see an exodus of list participants who can no longer tolerate noise. - paul At 07:40 PM 07/22/97 -0400, Jay R. Ashworth wrote:

Perhaps the thread has drifted off topic. But get off your goddamned high horse and save us the snotty rejoinders, all right?