Re: What is NANOG used for? (Was Re: Exodus?)

[Derek Balling <dredd () megacity org>]

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... 

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