On Wed, 31 Mar 2010, Steve Bertrand wrote:

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On 2010.03.30 23:42, Andrew D Kirch wrote:

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I am proposing that the NANOG administration drop everything originating from commonly used webmail providers,

I oppose this proposal.

There are very legitimate (and legal) reasons why people may want to post to an operational list, using an address that can not tie them to the location or business that they are posting from.

This list does not see much spam (or at least I don't). That said, let the list maintainers decide.

I would much prefer if EVERYBODY used freebie email accounts as opposed to their corporate ones, as this would make it more likely that they would quote "correctly" and we would get less silly legal disclaimers and out of office messages.

Personally, I don't give a fsck about corporate tags and/or legal notifications. My girl is a Federally certified Health and Safety Officer and works within the Nuclear industry. Each email she sends me that crosses her corporate Domino server contains about eight lines of non-72-width crap which usually translates into twice the length of the actual message. Although she _can_ use my personal (or external, ie. freebie) email services to relay out email from within her company, it likely isn't something that she should be doing (although their internal IT policy doesn't outright prohibit it...yet, or else I'd be the first to scream at her). The disclaimers, although annoying, to me are acceptable. Some enterprise have strict guidelines on email/communication use. I would sooner see the disclaimers as opposed to not have those valuable people not post at all.

I don't use my work account for any mailing lists because it's totally useless for that purpose. I also will participate in these mailing lists regardless of my employer, thus I never understood why someone would want to post from their corporate accounts.

I feel that in many cases that there are very good reasons for posting from such. Aside from the fact that some people post to ops/eng/rir/tech etc lists from their corporate email address because of internal policy, in many cases, I'd think that it makes sense that many postings to lists are for work purposes directly. Almost all of mine are. Whether I send from steveb@eagle.ca (my work email addr), steve@ibctech.ca or steve@ipv6canada.com shouldn't matter. I recognize your name Mikael, not your email address. Regardless, disclaimers and legal fluff are easily discarded when replying ;) Steve