On Sat, Nov 8, 2025 at 1:00 PM Tom Beecher <[email protected]> wrote: >> I vaguely recall a rule on the mailing list, lightly enforced, that >> participants were expected to use their own real names. I believe the >> grounds for it was that this is a professional forum intended to >> facilitate discussion between professionals. > > There is no such rule today, nor has there ever been one that I can ever > remember.
Hi Tom, Then I must be thinking of a different mailing list. Nevertheless, while I agree that the words should matter more than the speaker, I think there's a degree of professionalism missing from anonymized messages and that matters too. Regards, Bill Herrin -- For hire. https://bill.herrin.us/resume/ _______________________________________________ NANOG mailing list https://lists.nanog.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/YW6HGIXAQIZW63DM7T5LBI6N2EBEAPQ3/
