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I concur. This is way off-topic. A pointer to the list charter was posted recently and this crap wasn't part of it. On Mon, 28 Jul 1997, Jay R. Ashworth wrote: > On Mon, Jul 28, 1997 at 12:00:10PM -0700, Sarah Baker wrote: > > Off-topic to nanog. > > It appears that the members of the list feel it's a worthy topic for > discussion. Since you obviously don't, and I can just feel Paul > Ferguson and Randy Baker slavering at the bit, I'm going to try asking > this just _one_ more time, and if I don't get an answer within, say, 48 > hours, I'm going to start plonking people who yell "off-topic": > > ************************** > Would an administrator of this list please compose and post a message > defining in precise terms what topic areas are on- and off-topic for > the NANOG mailing list? > ************************** > > Pay careful attention, folks: the AUP is useless. It has not clearly > forbidden _any_ of the topics I've seen people get screamed at about in > the past month, with the sole exception of my bit of (you'll have to > admit: provoked) ventilation a week or so ago, for which I hereby > apologize publically to the parites involved. > > Private correspondence from people who might be expected to have valid > opinions tells me that this problem _is not me_. The definition of the > list is obviously inadequate, and I'm rapidly coming to the conclusion > that the list needs to be split into an announce list and a discussion > list, although I haven't quite yet characterized the exact distinction > in the traffic. > > In short: this list is turning into an old-boys (and -girls_ club, in > which the participants are expected to guess what the rules really are, > and mistakes are punished by beheading. > > The Emperor really _has_ no lightsaber. > > Let's buy him one, no? > > Cheers, > -- jra > -- > Jay R. Ashworth High Technology Systems Consulting Ashworth > Designer Linux: Where Do You Want To Fly Today? & Associates > ka1fjx/4 Crack. It does a body good. +1 813 790 7592 > [email protected] http://rc5.distributed.net NIC: jra3 > -- Regards, Tom ________________________________________________________________________ | "The Egg Domain" | "And all you touch and all you see, | | [email protected] | is all your life will ever be." | | http://www.egg.com/ | (Pink Floyd) |
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