North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: What is NANOG used for? (Was Re: Exodus?)
At 03:54 PM 1/3/99 -0600, Jon Green wrote: >Considering that his problems were isolated to Exodus clients, yes, it's >off-topic. Small network outages happen every day, and I don't think >we need to hear about them all. IMHO, what DOES belong on this list are >discussions of network design, router configuration, LARGE SCALE outages, >emerging Internet technologies, and general knowledge-sharing of how to >build better networks. It's not a mailing list for end users to say "I >can't reach www.something.com, but before I report it to my ISP or to the >far-end ISP I wanted to see if anyone else sees my problem." If that is >what the list continues to turn into, I for one will be unsubscribing, because >that is useless to me. I agree that "every little outage" isn't the purview of this list. It just seems like we have more messages on this list lately discussing what should/should-not be talked about than we do about "real" topics. This particular case may be more obviously "off-topic", but the reality is that it just seems (seems mind you) like a disproportionate amount of our traffic is complaining about other traffic. Dunno... D
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