[AusNOG] Time for AusSOG I think (was Re: Happy Sysadminday)

[Mark Smith]

On Sat, 31 Jul 2010 19:21:01 +0800
Shaun Dwyer <shaun at dwyer.id.au> wrote:

> Is it just me or...
> 
> Every so often, some one has a cry about an OT post. Usually the whinging about the OT post amounts to more OT Posts than the original OT post would have ever generated if it had been left alone to die.
> 
> The reality is, SNR on this list is pretty good.
> 

If the list charter is policed (the email titled, "[AusNOG] AusNOG list
charter" that just went out), then that is the result.

If the world didn't want to divide it's conversations up into topics,
there'd be a single mailing list for every topic and everybody.
Obviously that's not the case. And I think it is obvious that if you
subscribe to a list that is on a particular topic, it is fair and
reasonable to expect people who post to it to stay on topic. If I want
to see and participate in sysadmin related discussion, I'll subscribe
to both this and a sysadmin related mailing list.

What sort of reception do you think I'd get if I subscribed to a
SAGE-AU mailing list and then said something like "We network operators
are great, we make the Internet work"?


> 
> Cheers!
> -Shaun
> 
> 
> 
> On 31/07/2010, at 12:02 PM, Mark Smith wrote:
> 
> > On Sat, 31 Jul 2010 13:23:41 +1000
> > Skeeve Stevens <Skeeve at eintellego.net> wrote:
> > 
> >> You're right.  Let's track each and everyone down and beat them with a stick!!!!
> >> 
> > 
> > As long as they stay quiet, that's fine. However congratulating
> > themselves here is off-topic. On a SAGE-AU mailing list, not.
> > 
> > (I've seen a mailing list ruined by OT posts getting out of control.
> > Who'd have thought you'd see a huge discussion about the existence or
> > not of God on a Linux user group mailing list ... the problem was
> > eventually solved by creating a "-talk" mailing list, however at that
> > point it was too late IMO. I personally had found other forums to
> > participate in where topics of conversation were kept on track, and I
> > suspect others did too.)
> > 
> >> 
> >> ...Skeeve
> >> 
> >> --
> >> Skeeve Stevens, CEO/Technical Director
> >> eintellego Pty Ltd - The Networking Specialists
> >> skeeve at eintellego.net / www.eintellego.net
> >> Phone: 1300 753 383, Fax: (+612) 8572 9954
> >> Cell +61 (0)414 753 383 / skype://skeeve
> >> www.linkedin.com/in/skeeve ; facebook.com/eintellego
> >> --
> >> NOC, NOC, who's there?
> >> 
> >> 
> >>> -----Original Message-----
> >>> From: ausnog-bounces at lists.ausnog.net [mailto:ausnog-
> >>> bounces at lists.ausnog.net] On Behalf Of Mark Smith
> >>> Sent: Saturday, 31 July 2010 1:19 PM
> >>> To: Daniel Hood
> >>> Cc: ausnog at ausnog.net
> >>> Subject: [AusNOG] Time for AusSOG I think (was Re: Happy Sysadminday)
> >>> 
> >>> 
> >>> What are sysadmins doing on a _network operator_ mailing list?
> >>> 
> >>> 
> >>> 
> >>> On Fri, 30 Jul 2010 11:19:00 +1000
> >>> Daniel Hood <dsmhood at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>> 
> >>>> Happy Sysadmin Day everyone :-P
> >>>> 
> >>>> http://www.sysadminday.com/
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