NANOG-futures

[Mark Radabaugh]

J Bacher wrote:
> Gadi Evron wrote:
>
> > I believe our biggest problem is that "on topic" is not defined. Many 
> > here
> > see different issues as operational to them while a few here always yell
> > and scream the minute someone posts that interest.
> Patrick provided an excellent example:
>
> "I, for one, would vote that things such as botnet, IE exploits, and 
> other end-user issues be OFF TOPIC for NANOG, unless they affect the 
> _routing_ of the Internet such as the slammer worm did."
>
> I second that.
Good grief....  
Ok - I (we?) fall into the small ISP category so I don't really mind 
hearing about a widespread client issues - not that this really was one. 
NANOG used to be useful for monitoring outages and network issues - but 
it's rapidly lost it's usefulness due to the massive amount of noise 
caused by bitching regarding what is on topic and what isn't.

I rarely look at Nanog during the day anymore since it takes too long to 
sort anything useful from it.

A little self restraint on the reply button would go a long way to 
restoring Nanog to it's former useful self - and I would rather see the 
moderators coming down hard on the flames and useless replies rather 
than the person who posted something that might have been questionable.


Mark Radabaugh

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