Re: Internic does it again

[Tom Glover <tomg () boiled egg com>]

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
> -- 
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Regards,
Tom
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