Re: To the people who answer tech questions on this list

2011-02-17 Thread Michael Dillon
As for LinkedIN, I have nothing against, it, but I don't use it. I don't have an account on it and not sure I ever want to. I'm already slightly on facebook, and very active on twitter, so nothing against linkedin, but there's just too many social media websites to keep track of There

Re: To the people who answer tech questions on this list

2011-02-17 Thread Jay Ashworth
- Original Message - From: Michael Dillon wavetos...@googlemail.com There are no perfect solutions. It seems to me that Twitter is not conducive to technical QA and given the choice between Facebook and LinkedIn, it seems that the professional social network is more likely to gain

Re: To the people who answer tech questions on this list

2011-02-17 Thread Jack Bates
On 2/17/2011 2:30 AM, Michael Dillon wrote: Never heard of Quora and that seems to be tied to Facebook, so not ideal. Did you just dis Facebook while plugging linked-in? Jack (continuing to ask stupid and redundant questions on NANOG)

RE: To the people who answer tech questions on this list

2011-02-16 Thread Brandon Kim
I'm never afraid to ask a question, just as long as I've done my homework (due diligence) and not using this group to do work for me. Believe me, this group has helped me tremendously. As for LinkedIN, I have nothing against, it, but I don't use it. I don't have an account on it and not

Re: To the people who answer tech questions on this list

2011-02-16 Thread Phil Regnauld
Michael Dillon (wavetossed) writes: What do you think? (Probably best to answer this on the NANOG group over at... Hmm, wouldn't http://serverfault.com/ or http://www.quora.com/ be a more appropriate / efficient forum for technical questions ? Or does it have to be

Re: To the people who answer tech questions on this list

2011-02-16 Thread Hank Nussbacher
At 19:03 16/02/2011 -0800, Michael Dillon wrote: This list serves a number of purposes and one of them is to answer technical networking questions. But this list is also not the only place that these types of questions are asked. For instance, LinkedIn has a QA feature where people can ask and

Re: To the people who answer tech questions on this list

2011-02-16 Thread TJ
On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 22:23, Phil Regnauld regna...@nsrc.org wrote: Michael Dillon (wavetossed) writes: What do you think? (Probably best to answer this on the NANOG group over at... Hmm, wouldn't http://serverfault.com/ or http://www.quora.com/ be a more appropriate /