I am not checking my emails until Nov 14th, 2025. Thanks, Samaneh On Nov 8, 2025, at 10:00 PM, Tom Beecher via NANOG <[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. Not some hackernet on the dark web. There is no such rule today, nor has there ever been one that I can ever remember. On Sat, Nov 8, 2025 at 1:50 PM William Herrin via NANOG < [email protected]> wrote: On Sat, Nov 8, 2025 at 5:27 AM nanog--- via NANOG <[email protected]> wrote: Perhaps those who call others "internet trolls" should reconsider whether their own behaviour is trolling. In the modern online environment, it is unwise to expose personal information needlessly. 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. Not some hackernet on the dark web. Did the policy change at some point or am I misremembering it entirely? Regards, Bill Herrin _______________________________________________ NANOG mailing list https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://lists.nanog.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/ASWZTY3TGATNYV4HANT5BR4VNC62AOC3/__;!!PtGJab4!57fMZ2VEYL5mMaRJJYpjgfXZcFDIdoWCFmPx13J9_cMBuVlmRsdVc4JW9t55rdwxvJ_YBLibK1ieRcp_DCKITYxViTI$ [lists[.]nanog[.]org] _______________________________________________ NANOG mailing list https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://lists.nanog.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/A33DHYZMCGVR4MGTPI22MCBXEEDI7UJD/__;!!PtGJab4!57fMZ2VEYL5mMaRJJYpjgfXZcFDIdoWCFmPx13J9_cMBuVlmRsdVc4JW9t55rdwxvJ_YBLibK1ieRcp_DCKIWj7Aom0$ [lists[.]nanog[.]org] _______________________________________________ NANOG mailing list https://lists.nanog.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/BPXKTTATUAAD2NQNGP7SW2CEXK2R3PXU/
