Re: mlc files formal complaint against me

2007-10-08 Thread Randy Bush
dunce cap on irrelevant to the mlc action, but ... as someone just pointed out to me, i was confusing two ex-ceos of qwest, joe nacchio, who is a convicted felon, with sol trujillo, who is not, but is currently the ceo of telstra. apologies. randy

Re: mlc files formal complaint against me

2007-10-08 Thread Robert E. Seastrom
Randy Bush [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: no sc hat at all the appended message earned me a formal complaint from the mlc. No, it did not. It earned you a polite request from Marty to show some leadership and not engage in off-topic personal sniping on the list. When you asked if it was a

Re: mlc files formal complaint against me

2007-10-08 Thread Stephen Wilcox
On Mon, Oct 08, 2007 at 03:31:10PM +0900, Randy Bush wrote: no sc hat at all the appended message earned me a formal complaint from the mlc. they have accused me of making a personal attack. of course, joe nacchio (apologies for misspelling at first), is a very well known public figure;

Re: mlc files formal complaint against me

2007-10-08 Thread Randy Bush
http://rip.psg.com/~randy/mlc-complaint.mbox

Re: mlc files formal complaint against me

2007-10-08 Thread Joel Jaeggli
Randy Bush wrote: no sc hat at all I did not think at the time that, that particular message contributed much to the general tenor of the discussion. The implication I derived was not that joe nacchio was a felon, we all know this (19 counts of insider trading), but that .au is still a penal

Re: mlc files formal complaint against me

2007-10-08 Thread Joe Provo
On Mon, Oct 08, 2007 at 12:11:17PM +0100, Stephen Wilcox wrote: [snip] i guess it could be 'character assassination' or 'political' which are both against the AUP [mild tangent: How can the blanket label of political be off-topic given the serious time and energy spent with both informed and

Re: mlc files formal complaint against me

2007-10-08 Thread Martin Hannigan
On 10/8/07, Joe Provo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Oct 08, 2007 at 12:11:17PM +0100, Stephen Wilcox wrote: [snip] i guess it could be 'character assassination' or 'political' which are both against the AUP [mild tangent: How can the blanket label of political be off-topic given the

Re: mlc files formal complaint against me

2007-10-08 Thread Jim Popovitch
On Mon, 2007-10-08 at 16:24 +0900, Randy Bush wrote: http://rip.psg.com/~randy/mlc-complaint.mbox Can't we all just get along. Look, Randy's comment was a bit gruff (although deeply humorous to quite a few folks). Considering it was made at 2AM I'd have to say that it's not as bad as I've

OT re: mlc files formal complaint against me

2007-10-08 Thread Jim Popovitch
On Tue, 2007-10-09 at 05:54 +0900, Randy Bush wrote: Jim Popovitch wrote: On Mon, 2007-10-08 at 16:24 +0900, Randy Bush wrote: Considering it was made at 2AM i am in tokyo randy :-) well, I read your emails in Atlanta at 2am and your late-night attitude really shows through even though

Re: mlc files formal complaint against me

2007-10-08 Thread Martin Hannigan
[ snip, nobody cares about Telstra or the embedded baiting ] if it was just marty being on a piss off about me, then no big deal; i can handle marty (and certainly am in no position to abuse him for being hot-headed). Hot-headed for what reason? Because you are off topic as usual? Not quite.

Re: mlc files formal complaint against me

2007-10-08 Thread Jim Popovitch
On Mon, 2007-10-08 at 18:46 -0400, Martin Hannigan wrote: Just so we're clear, you will continue to see requests to adapt to the AUP wrt to being on topic. If you don't like that, you can certainly seek to have me thrown off the MLC. In fact, I encourage it. :-) I think that is Randy's

Re: mlc files formal complaint against me

2007-10-08 Thread Robert E. Seastrom
Randy Bush [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: when i asked if it was formal, assuming it was so because it had been cc:d to the sc ($deity knows why), rob said yes it could be taken that way. I'm sorry that you misunderstood my communication; obviously I should have laid it out more carefully. The

Re: mlc files formal complaint against me

2007-10-08 Thread Robert E. Seastrom
Jim Popovitch [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Mon, 2007-10-08 at 18:46 -0400, Martin Hannigan wrote: Just so we're clear, you will continue to see requests to adapt to the AUP wrt to being on topic. If you don't like that, you can certainly seek to have me thrown off the MLC. In fact, I

Re: mlc files formal complaint against me

2007-10-08 Thread Robert E. Seastrom
Randy Bush [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: but i am certainly guilty of terseness and obscurity, as well as confusing two ex-cseo of qwest. my apologies. ... this would have been very clear as to the formality of the message, and have allowed discussion and explantation. Matthew 7:5

Re: mlc files formal complaint against me

2007-10-08 Thread Martin Hannigan
On 10/8/07, Randy Bush [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just so we're clear, you will continue to see requests to adapt to the AUP wrt to being on topic. your complaint to me was not about topic, but rather about ad homina. to quote And as you know, the NANOG AUP specifically discourages

Re: mlc files formal complaint against me

2007-10-08 Thread Martin Hannigan
On 10/8/07, Jim Popovitch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 2007-10-08 at 18:46 -0400, Martin Hannigan wrote: Just so we're clear, you will continue to see requests to adapt to the AUP wrt to being on topic. If you don't like that, you can certainly seek to have me thrown off the MLC. In

Re: mlc files formal complaint against me

2007-10-08 Thread Joel Jaeggli
Martin Hannigan wrote: How do we determine what people do want to read vs. what they don't? It would be nice to have some direction. I don't mean from futures, there's nobody really here, but I mean community wide overall? How do we determine what people really want to hear about and act

Re: mlc files formal complaint against me

2007-10-08 Thread Martin Hannigan
On 10/9/07, vijay gill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 10/8/07, Joel Jaeggli [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Martin Hannigan wrote: How do we determine what people do want to read vs. what they don't? It would be nice to have some direction. I don't mean from futures, there's nobody really

Re: mlc files formal complaint against me

2007-10-08 Thread Paul Ferguson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 - -- vijay gill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Really, reading this thread has left me stupider. I guess instead of focusing on things like the lightweight agenda, abysmal content and actual value to be had from NANOG, I'm glad someone finally said

Re: mlc files formal complaint against me

2007-10-08 Thread Alex Pilosov
On Mon, 8 Oct 2007, vijay gill wrote: Really, reading this thread has left me stupider. I guess instead of focusing on things like the lightweight agenda, abysmal content and actual value to be had from NANOG, we are getting tied up discussing an offhand remark about a convicted felon. I

Re: mlc files formal complaint against me

2007-10-08 Thread Martin Hannigan
I suggest with the best intention possible that marty unwad his shorts and the rest of us STFU and GBTW. I'll add others to the list, but yes, in the simplest possible terms, this thread was a ridiculous waste of time of everyone involved. Well, Vijay can KMA, but point taken. My shorts

The NANOG Irrelevance? [Was: Re: mlc files formal complaint against me ]

2007-10-08 Thread Paul Ferguson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I realized after I sent that message that it was unfair of me to make statements without properly characterizing them with context. Let me say this: I believe NANOG has very much lost touch with the base of it's constituency. For instance: I made an