Re: [Nanog-futures] Draft Policy re individual sites

2009-06-10 Thread Ronald Cotoni
This is the internet, can't give too much credit. On Tue, Jun 9, 2009 at 8:27 PM, Jo Rhettjrh...@netconsonance.com wrote: On Jun 9, 2009, at 5:58 PM, Scott Weeks wrote: 'Select All' on the 'Subject' you don't want to read about and delete.  A few hours turns into a few minutes... :-) I do

Re: [Nanog-futures] Draft Policy re individual sites

2009-06-09 Thread Jo Rhett
On May 11, 2009, at 11:22 PM, Randy Bush wrote: i, for one, am ready. i have a delete key for messages that do not interest me. but i do not have an undelete for messages which censors do not think i should read. Randy what you are saying makes sense. But you are forgetting the dark side

Re: [Nanog-futures] Draft Policy re individual sites

2009-06-09 Thread Randy Bush
In theory, if Nanog was topical to its own mission, Nanog would be a must read every day. We all agree that Pascal needs only one or two changes. The problem is we each have a different set of changes. -- pascal hacker back in the '70s the problem here is that the community is diverse, and

Re: [Nanog-futures] Draft Policy re individual sites

2009-06-09 Thread Jo Rhett
On May 1, 2009, at 1:34 PM, Martin Hannigan wrote: I think most of us are broad minded and appreciate common sense topics related to network operations. Yes. Most know what that is. No need to make rules to assault the few, IMHO. If they were few, this wouldn't be a topic. Perhaps you

Re: [Nanog-futures] Draft Policy re individual sites

2009-06-09 Thread Scott Weeks
--- jrh...@netconsonance.com wrote: Perhaps you have time to sit and hit delete for a few hours every day before you find a single post relevant to your job. I don't, and snip 'Select All' on the 'Subject' you don't want to read about and delete. A few

Re: [Nanog-futures] Draft Policy re individual sites

2009-06-09 Thread Jo Rhett
On Jun 9, 2009, at 5:58 PM, Scott Weeks wrote: 'Select All' on the 'Subject' you don't want to read about and delete. A few hours turns into a few minutes... :-) I do that, but at risk. Far too many people who should know better use Reply to create a new thread. So their new thread gets

Re: [Nanog-futures] Draft Policy re individual sites

2009-05-12 Thread Randy Bush
clearly we have returned to a regime where folk think that censorship is the way to improve what they see as the appropriate content of the nanog list. as part of that, the mlc is now saying there is a list for that, ref. if someone would do us a favor and accumulate a list of these lists, one

Re: [Nanog-futures] Draft Policy re individual sites

2009-05-12 Thread Jared Mauch
On May 12, 2009, at 2:22 AM, Randy Bush wrote: clearly we have returned to a regime where folk think that censorship is the way to improve what they see as the appropriate content of the nanog list. as part of that, the mlc is now saying there is a list for that, ref. if someone

Re: [Nanog-futures] Draft Policy re individual sites

2009-05-12 Thread Martin Hannigan
This problem has become a cyclical event which seems to cause a rash of finger pointing at the MLC whenever it pops up. This results in some 'action'. That action is usually like using reload as a workaround to a hardware problem instead of replacing the buggy code. The result is what we keep

Re: [Nanog-futures] Draft Policy re individual sites

2009-05-12 Thread Jared Mauch
On May 12, 2009, at 9:10 AM, Martin Hannigan wrote: This problem has become a cyclical event which seems to cause a rash of finger pointing at the MLC whenever it pops up. This results in I certainly agree on the cyclical problem. This issue keeps coming back. Personally, I'm not

Re: [Nanog-futures] Draft Policy re individual sites

2009-05-12 Thread Randy Bush
This problem has become a cyclical event which seems to cause a rash of finger pointing at the MLC whenever it pops up. This results in some 'action'. That action is usually like using reload as a workaround to a hardware problem instead of replacing the buggy code. The result is what we

Re: [Nanog-futures] Draft Policy re individual sites

2009-05-12 Thread Martin Hannigan
On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 10:43 AM, Randy Bush ra...@psg.com wrote: This problem has become a cyclical event which seems to cause a rash of finger pointing at the MLC whenever it pops up. This results in some 'action'. That action is usually like using reload as a workaround to a hardware

Re: [Nanog-futures] Draft Policy re individual sites

2009-05-12 Thread Joe Provo
On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 08:25:10AM -0700, kris foster wrote: On May 12, 2009, at 7:32 AM, Jared Mauch wrote: On May 12, 2009, at 9:10 AM, Martin Hannigan wrote: some 'action'. That action is usually like using reload as a workaround to a hardware problem instead of replacing the buggy

Re: [Nanog-futures] Draft Policy re individual sites

2009-05-12 Thread Jay Hennigan
bmann...@vacation.karoshi.com wrote: On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 06:13:26PM +0200, Randy Bush wrote: How about a filtered(proactive) -and- an unfiltered(reactive) feed? works for me, though i am not sure what you mean by reactive beyond my using the delete functions. Dean. what's a dean? randy

Re: [Nanog-futures] Draft Policy re individual sites

2009-05-11 Thread Martin Hannigan
On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 7:05 PM, Jo Rhett jrh...@netconsonance.com wrote: On May 1, 2009, at 1:34 PM, Martin Hannigan wrote: Loudness != majority I think most of us are broad minded and appreciate common sense topics related to network operations. Most know what that is. No need to make

Re: [Nanog-futures] Draft Policy re individual sites

2009-05-02 Thread John Osmon
On Sat, May 02, 2009 at 08:17:10PM -0400, Joe Abley wrote: [...] I'd prefer the MLC to treat each case on its merits, and to work with a light touch to keep the list useful. Do the MLC volunteers feel that this isn't working? It's not clear to me exactly what problem this proposed

Re: [Nanog-futures] Draft Policy re individual sites

2009-05-01 Thread Gadi Evron
Joel Jaeggli wrote: Simon Lyall wrote: On Thu, 30 Apr 2009, Martin Hannigan wrote: Not such a great idea. A down search engine is an operational problem whether its application or network. It makes lots of phones ring and finger pointing at our networks. This costs us money. Same for major

Re: [Nanog-futures] Draft Policy re individual sites

2009-05-01 Thread Randy Bush
A policy idea that has been put forward, thoughts (especially from lurkers) ? Simon NANOG MLC Policy re individual sites == The availability and operation of specific Internet site such as websites and email services is off-topic unless: (a) The problems

Re: [Nanog-futures] Draft Policy re individual sites

2009-05-01 Thread Michael Dillon
Policy re individual sites == The availability and operation of specific Internet site such as websites and email services is off-topic unless: (a) The problems are caused by network reachability rather than problems     at the site hosting the service. (b) The

Re: [Nanog-futures] Draft Policy re individual sites

2009-05-01 Thread Joel Jaeggli
Jo Rhett wrote: On Apr 30, 2009, at 8:45 PM, Joel Jaeggli wrote: dnsbl shuts down and starts responding with affirmative responses to all queries, on topic. On topic for who? Show me how to configure my router to use a dnsbl. It's on topic for a mailing list about e-mail servers,

Re: [Nanog-futures] Draft Policy re individual sites

2009-05-01 Thread James R. Cutler
On May 1, 2009, at 2:03 PM, Gadi Evron wrote: Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't NANOG about network operations rather than routing? With routing naturally being the main point of interest? -- Gadi Evron, g...@linuxbox.org. Thanks, Gadi. Some on this list appear to believe that the

Re: [Nanog-futures] Draft Policy re individual sites

2009-05-01 Thread Martin Hannigan
And Loudness != majority I think most of us are broad minded and appreciate common sense topics related to network operations. Most know what that is. No need to make rules to assault the few, IMHO. On 5/1/09, James R. Cutler james.cut...@consultant.com wrote: On May 1, 2009, at 2:03 PM,

Re: [Nanog-futures] Draft Policy re individual sites

2009-05-01 Thread Steve Feldman
My personal opinion (not wearing SC hat for the moment) is that enumeration of specific subjects which are on and off topic is an infinite rathole. I'd rather see more generic guidelines, like maybe: - If there's a well-known mailing list for the subject, discussion should be redirected

Re: [Nanog-futures] Draft Policy re individual sites

2009-05-01 Thread Randy Bush
On topic for who? Show me how to configure my router to use a dnsbl. please be seated when you read the next sentence. pause network operations is not only about routers randy ___ Nanog-futures mailing list Nanog-futures@nanog.org

Re: [Nanog-futures] Draft Policy re individual sites

2009-05-01 Thread Paul Ferguson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, May 1, 2009 at 3:05 PM, Gadi Evron g...@linuxbox.org wrote: Steve Feldman wrote: I honestly don't mind seeing the occasional newbie question, especially if there are polite and intelligent responses pointing to answers. (See

Re: [Nanog-futures] Draft Policy re individual sites

2009-05-01 Thread Randy Bush
- If there's a well-known mailing list for the subject, discussion should be redirected there. nope. i do not want to have to manage subscriptions (and get monthly mailman garbage:) from 42 mailing lists, and have to track where subject 19.43 has moved this week. do people not have mail

Re: [Nanog-futures] Draft Policy re individual sites

2009-05-01 Thread kris foster
On May 1, 2009, at 2:03 PM, Steve Feldman wrote: What bugs me is when these degenerate into long-lived off-topic threads, and that's where I'd like to see the MLC's effort focused. This causes a fair bit of pain (from what a number of people have told me, and my own opinion). I'd be happy

Re: [Nanog-futures] Draft Policy re individual sites

2009-05-01 Thread Scott Weeks
--- kris.fos...@gmail.com wrote: 2. Does the MLC then moderate the thread, plead with all subscribers to stop, or play whac-a-mole with individual posters (..or worse, just complain that people don't know how to filter email for themselves). At this point it looks like we moderate after

Re: [Nanog-futures] Draft Policy re individual sites

2009-05-01 Thread Simon Lyall
On Fri, 1 May 2009, Jo Rhett wrote: The availability and operation of specific Internet site such as websites and email services is off-topic unless the site provides a route-server or similar service which directly supports network routing and connectivity. That sounds tidier, thankyou, --

Re: [Nanog-futures] Draft Policy re individual sites

2009-05-01 Thread Martin Hannigan
Third-Fourthed. On 5/1/09, Paul Ferguson fergdawgs...@gmail.com wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, May 1, 2009 at 3:05 PM, Gadi Evron g...@linuxbox.org wrote: Steve Feldman wrote: I honestly don't mind seeing the occasional newbie question, especially if

Re: [Nanog-futures] Draft Policy re individual sites

2009-05-01 Thread kris foster
On May 1, 2009, at 5:20 PM, Scott Weeks wrote: -- Some more on topic ( before it drifts again ). The regular thread from people complaining about sending email to yahoo or the latest virus or some weird Japanese emails, or some random

Re: [Nanog-futures] Draft Policy re individual sites

2009-05-01 Thread Martin Hannigan
There are many 'websites' or apps relevant to netops. -keystone -rupe ncc monitoring -potaroo -large portals (mail, communities, etc) -search engines If I had posted about equifax.com being down this would not be a topic. If Rod Beck did it, he'd get banned. You can't moderate style or

Re: [Nanog-futures] Draft Policy re individual sites

2009-04-30 Thread Martin Hannigan
Not such a great idea. A down search engine is an operational problem whether its application or network. It makes lots of phones ring and finger pointing at our networks. This costs us money. Same for major mail products. Delete key? On 4/30/09, Simon Lyall si...@darkmere.gen.nz wrote: A

Re: [Nanog-futures] Draft Policy re individual sites

2009-04-30 Thread Jim Popovitch
On Thu, Apr 30, 2009 at 18:45, Simon Lyall si...@darkmere.gen.nz wrote: The availability and operation of specific Internet site such as websites and email services is off-topic unless: (a) The problems are caused by network reachability rather than problems     at the site hosting the