> > Where do you spend most of your time, outside of this mailing list? Why > do you like it there? What kind of folks hangout there?
The older I get , the fewer methods of communication I choose to use. It's information overload. Multiple different Slack instances, Signal, WhatsApp, emails, IRC , it's just overload. It's enough work sorting through the things I *HAVE* to pay attention to. Trying to keep up on all the others that I don't is basically impossible. I've been dropping more and more things, like the NANOG Discord. It was a good idea, but I find no value in it, so I moved on. For most things at this point a text/imessage/WhatsApp works best if I need to get in touch with someone. On Wed, Aug 20, 2025 at 8:36 PM Mark Prosser via NANOG < [email protected]> wrote: > I was chatting with some industry colleagues recently and I realized > that various sectors of our industry are not "online" in the spaces I'm > online. > > Perhaps there was a time when most of us were on mailing lists & IRC, > but now the communities seem fragmented and behind walled gardens > (Mainly Discord and Slack .. the latter is deleting our messages faster > and faster). > > Personally, I'm subscribed to several discord groups (including NANOG), > several slack groups, a few mailing lists, IRC (I'm not on that often > these days), one or two Matrix groups, IETF Zulip... > > This quickly becomes cumbersome and I find myself mainly in Packet > Pushers & NAF Slack groups -- while being "reachable" in other places. I > feel like I'm missing out on conversations outside of the few bubbles I > participate in. > > Where do you spend most of your time, outside of this mailing list? Why > do you like it there? What kind of folks hangout there? > > Warm regards, > > -- > Mark Prosser > // E: [email protected] > // W: https://zealnetworks.ca > > _______________________________________________ > NANOG mailing list > > https://lists.nanog.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/CGE3HKEBMR6AFZKZSOBWM32YIXI7GIXF/ > _______________________________________________ NANOG mailing list https://lists.nanog.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/IHCMJJX4KDCW4OTFVXUT5VKTAPJ2M26G/
