NANOG-futures

[Michael Smith]

On Mar 20, 2008, at 7:39 PM, Pete Templin wrote:
> James R. Cutler wrote:
>
>> If NANOG is to continue as a robust and vital organization, we cannot
>> afford to be nasty to newcomers.
>>
>> If NANOG is to die, we can continue arbitrary nastiness and  
>> restrictions
>> on simple asking of questions.
>>
>> It is always better to give a guided tour to another location than to
>> shout, "You don't belong here!"
>
> For the sake of discussion, let's come up with some semblance of
> boundaries so we know whether we'll get scolded for leading a guided
> tour or not.  If someone's rude, we can handle that separately.
>
> pt

I think any respectful response, even it directs the person asking the  
question elsewhere, is really all that's needed.  I'm not sure what  
the litmus test is for "rude" but I certainly know it when I see it.

With that, how about we all agree to politely sent the new member to http://www.nanog.org/listfaq.html 
  when it's obvious they are asking questions that could be better  
answered elsewhere?  And, how about we update the faq to include links  
to other sites that are of help to all of us?  (Think back, remember  
when you had to go to list "x" to figure out what the hell was  
happening on your Multicast/ATM/FDDI/TokenRing/NewMultipointPeering  
network?

Offhand, I'd refer people to:

Puck -> various and sundry
FreeBSD Questions

We're all very eloquent in our pithy attacks against the uninitiated,  
but perhaps just a "check this out" is sufficient.

Mike

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