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Re: AUP for NANOG?
From: Steve Gibbard <scg () gibbard org>
Date: Thu, 14 Apr 2005 12:20:14 -0700 (PDT)
On Thu, 14 Apr 2005, Bill Nash wrote:
Some readers are tackling problems on a day to day basis that are old hat for the seasoned NANOG denizens, and are bereft of the major benefit nanog provides (conversation with peers) because some of those problems have been argued to death and are now taboo. In most cases, the simple answer is to read the faq[1] or search the archives. For relatively newer folks though, sheer lack of experience will often cough up the caveat of not knowing what to look for. At the risk of triggering either a stupid argument or a landslide into bureaucracy, might I suggest the formation of nanog-isp as a narrower forum for non-backbone providers tackling operational and design issues specific to edge networks? Having learned (and missed) fundamentals by working completely on my own with various projects, I can safely say there's no substitute for active peer review and conversation.
Speaking just for myself, I'd welcome discussion of operational and design issues specific to edge networks here, and newbie questions are useful as well. If those with experience don't share knowledge with those with less experience, we'll just have the same mistakes being made over and over again.
Most of what gets strongly objected to falls into the categories of either petty arguments, stuff that has nothing to do with network operations, or the extreme hostility that seems to be consistently generated by a few topics.
If people consistently asked three questions before they posted, "is it polite?", "does it have to do with network operations?", and "will this be interesting to some portion of the NANOG readership?", I think we'd be in fine shape.
-Steve
Current thread:
- AUP for NANOG? Matthew Black (Apr 14)
- Re: AUP for NANOG? Randy Bush (Apr 14)
- Re: AUP for NANOG? Edward Lewis (Apr 14)
- Re: AUP for NANOG? Chris Kuethe (Apr 14)
- Re: AUP for NANOG? Randy Bush (Apr 14)
- Re: AUP for NANOG? Romain Komorn (Apr 14)
- Re: AUP for NANOG? Scott Grayban (Apr 14)
- Re: AUP for NANOG? Bill Nash (Apr 14)
- Re: AUP for NANOG? Steve Gibbard (Apr 14)
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- Best Practices Knowledge Capture (was: Re: AUP for NANOG?) Jay R. Ashworth (Apr 15)
- Re: AUP for NANOG? Randy Bush (Apr 14)
- Comment for new folks and posting [was: AUP for NANOG?] Scott Weeks (Apr 14)
- Re: AUP for NANOG? Per Gregers Bilse (Apr 15)
- <Possible follow-ups>
- RE: AUP for NANOG? Hannigan, Martin (Apr 14)
- Re: AUP for NANOG? Gregory Hicks (Apr 15)
- Re: AUP for NANOG? John Dupuy (Apr 15)