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> > Aha! So there really is more stuff hidden away on that > > site for the chosen few. Perception is reality, eh? > People, please, gain some perspective here. Nobody wants the > thankless job of maintaining a mailing list that badly. Perhps I'm being too subtle here. I fully realize that all these irregularities are the result of incompetence and not of malice. But, as Paul Vixie wisely pointed out, in the realm of politics, perception equals reality. If something is not completely in the open then people tend to believe that there are nefarious plotters doing backroom deals to sieze power. The i's need to be dotted and the t's need to be crossed. If there is really a nanog-reform mailing list associated with nanog-reform.org then put information about it on the website. Move the petition signers to a secondary page. Put a link to (and explanation of) the wiki on the nanog-reform.org homepage. If there really is an archive of nanog-futures then put information about it on the website. If there really are some interim results as reflected by the several emails on the NANOG list, then put this info on the nanog-reform.org website. Dot the i's. Cross the t's. The community to which NANOG addresses itself is only partially represented by this mailing list and even less represented by the NANOG meetings themselves. There are many, many IP network operators in North America (and elsewhere) who would benefit from greater cooperation and communication through a medium like NANOG. In order to reach out to them, we have to stop posting in cryptic language and assuming that everyone is part of the in-crowd and knows how to find that one reference to a nanog-reform list buried somewhere in the archives of this mailing list. This is not an attack on any one person but rather a general comment on behavior which is widespread on this list. It's the middle of the noughties now and the Internet has grown up. We need to move on and restructure our forums and organizations to better meet the needs of the industry and the IP network operations community. --Michael Dillon
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