As was stated earlier, the noise exists because the noise-makers insist on an audience for their rantings. The unwillingness of the audience is unimportant to them; only our captivity matters. Saying "stop it" or "take it somewhere else" only proves we're listening, and validates their use of the list. In other words, as Bill has said, we vote with the subscribe key, as I'll do now....

---------- From: esteban gutierrez[SMTP:esteban@lethe.ceap.net] Sent: Friday, May 30, 1997 3:07 PM To: nanog@merit.edu Subject: NANOG: Why is this list going to /dev/null?

Folks- I am really sorry to see people leaving this list because of the inane DNS squabbling. Don't get me wrong it's important stuff to discuss. So rather than having this list get moderated (thereby losing its rare but timely problem announcements), why can't Fleming et al. create a new list and take all DNS issues there (Heck, call it nanog-dns). It is really disappointing to see valuable people leave because of the noise. Let's get this list back to North American network operations issues and cut out the political bull.

----------------------------------------- Esteban Gutierrez US ARMY Corps of Engineers CEAP Global Network Operations Center (503) 326-6126

On Fri, 30 May 1997, Kevin W. Brown wrote:

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On Fri, 30 May 1997, Jim Fleming wrote:

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As the dust settles, it appears that one new Root Name Server Confederation can be added to the world Round Table. Hopefully, each Root Name Server Confederation can present 2 delegates to represent the confederation.

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Jim, please keep your DNS-related posts off of NANOG. It is OFF-TOPIC for this mailing list. Thanks.