Re: Perhaps it's time to think about enhancements to the NANOG list...?

[Eric Kuhnke <eric.kuhnke () gmail com>]

Perhaps the sales, marketing and 'business development' people who've never
typed "enable" or "configure" into a router a single day in their lives
might be better served with a dedicated list that is mission focused on
bizdev, and not operational issues.



On Thu, Mar 18, 2021 at 3:29 PM Matthew Petach <mpetach () netflight com>
wrote:

> On Thu, Mar 18, 2021 at 10:37 AM Tom Beecher <beecher () beecher cc> wrote:
>
> > CC back to the mailing list for visibility, since I ate the CC list.
> >
> > On Thu, Mar 18, 2021 at 1:31 PM Tom Beecher <beecher () beecher cc> wrote:
> >
> > > Rod-
> > >
> > > Please refer to the usage guidelines found here.
> > > https://nanog.org/resources/usage-guidelines/
> > >
> > > 14. Posts that encourage or facilitate an agreement about the following
> > > > subjects are inappropriate: prices, discounts, or terms or conditions of
> > > > sale; salaries; benefits, profits, profit margins, or cost data; market
> > > > shares, sales territories, or markets; allocation of customers or
> > > > territories; or selection, rejection, or termination of customers or
> > > > suppliers.
> > >
> > >
> > >  I would tend to agree that while most of your posts to the list are
> > > within the guidelines, there have been occasions where a reasonable person
> > > could think you might be skirting the line a bit. In this case :
> > >
> > > - Your company works as a broker to procure capacity for others.
> > > - You sent an email to the list that wording wise would be exactly the
> > > same as many of us might send to someone they were looking for capacity
> > > from.
> > >
> > > I think most would agree this is pretty clearly against both the usage
> > > guidelines and the spirit of what this mailing list is about.
> > >
> > > I would also like to remind you that this list is administered by the
> > > NANOG organization. You have no authority to tell others to 'cease and
> > > desist', and insult someone as 'underemployed' is also not well tolerated
> > > here.
> > >
> > > I have looped in the list admins here. It would probably be a good idea
> > > to refrain from future messages that are clearly commercial in nature, or
> > > that contain unnecessary insults.
>
>
> If only we had some way to segregate out different topics
> of interest or disinterest, so that people who weren't interested
> in questions about bandwidth availability could unsubscribe
> from those topics, and only subscribe to the topics that *did*
> interest them...
>
> #AFewDaysTooEarly
>
> ^_^;;
>
> Matt