I had the same recollection. https://web.archive.org/web/20021209101350/https://nanog.org/listfaq.html
Sent from my iPhone > On Nov 8, 2025, at 4:49 PM, William Herrin via NANOG <[email protected]> > wrote: > > 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/ _______________________________________________ NANOG mailing list https://lists.nanog.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/D7LR4LQJVUMCFFFLM5WVPMCV5TTAH2UV/
