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Re: NANOG Spam?
From: Rodney Joffe <rjoffe () centergate com>
Date: Sat, 8 Jul 2006 13:29:14 -0700
This is directed to the remaining 9,983[1] subscribers to the NANOG list who have *not yet* sent email to announce the fact that they are lurkers. (I think I heard someone say that there were 10,000[1] people on the list, but maybe it was only 1,000, or 100 - I'm old, and bad with numbers and have A.D.D. and all that). But whatever the number... if you believe you have to post a message to show that you exist...
DON'T.No-one really cares. Please go read Jim Popovich's misunderstood post which started this whole thing:
http://www.merit.edu/mail.archives/nanog/msg01009.htmlRead Joe Yao's follow up, logically letting those subscribers from the now recognized slow learning crowd know that Jim was describing actions he took for *other* lists that *he* controlled. Not NANOG. And if you still don't get it, read Jim's confirmation of Joe's hypothesis.
But *please please*, don't post a message just because you think that if you don't, you'll be unsubscribed.
If this was a list I had any influence over, I would use the fact that a subscriber posts a defensive message as canonical evidence of lack of clue, and instantly drop them from the list.
[1] And yes, if the number is anything close to 10,000, we can make the assumption that the list is comprised predominantly of hoisl's classmates (a free NANOG 27 t-shirt to the first person who recalls and provides a link showing the connection :-)). And if you do know what the reference is, check that no-one has yet provided it before doing so - don't become a hoisl yourself.
/rlj Speaking only for myself.
Current thread:
- Re: NANOG Spam?, (continued)
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- Re: NANOG Spam? Bob Vaughan (Jul 06)
- Re: NANOG Spam? Dominic J. Eidson (Jul 06)
- Re: NANOG Spam? Henry Linneweh (Jul 06)
- Re: NANOG Spam? Peter Dambier (Jul 06)
- Re: NANOG Spam? Greg Taylor (Jul 08)
- Re: NANOG Spam? Rodney Joffe (Jul 08)
- Re: NANOG Spam? Allen Parker (Jul 08)
- Re: NANOG Spam? Rodney Joffe (Jul 08)
- Re: NANOG Spam? Joseph S D Yao (Jul 06)
- Re: NANOG Spam? Jim Popovitch (Jul 06)
- Re: NANOG Spam? Etaoin Shrdlu (Jul 06)
- Re: NANOG Spam? William Allen Simpson (Jul 09)