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

[Tom Beecher <beecher () beecher cc>]

> why not confine the effort to the one need that seems
> to clearly exist: a place for network engineers to solicit vendors of
> the goods and services that network engineers buy?

If there's a real need for that ( which my voicemail and email might say is
debatable :) ) , then someone could start that, but I do not think NANOG
itself should.  Biz-dev is not the stated mission of the organization.

On Mon, Mar 22, 2021 at 12:52 PM William Herrin <bill () herrin us> wrote:

> On Sat, Mar 20, 2021 at 8:56 AM Mike Hammett <nanog () ics-il net> wrote:
> > That seems like a reasonable proposal. NANOG-OffTopic, NANOG-Discuss,
> NANOG-BizDev, NANOG-xyz, something (more more than one something).
>
> Hi Mike,
>
> This conversation started because someone got called to carpet for
> soliciting a vendor on the main list. Rather than guessing at how to
> split up topics, why not confine the effort to the one need that seems
> to clearly exist: a place for network engineers to solicit vendors of
> the goods and services that network engineers buy?
>
> Regards,
> Bill Herrin
>
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