Perhaps the sales, marketing and 'business development' people who've never typed "enable" or "configure" into a router a single day in their lives might be better served with a dedicated list that is mission focused on bizdev, and not operational issues.
On Thu, Mar 18, 2021 at 3:29 PM Matthew Petach <mpet...@netflight.com> wrote: > > On Thu, Mar 18, 2021 at 10:37 AM Tom Beecher <beec...@beecher.cc> wrote: > >> CC back to the mailing list for visibility, since I ate the CC list. >> >> On Thu, Mar 18, 2021 at 1:31 PM Tom Beecher <beec...@beecher.cc> wrote: >> >>> Rod- >>> >>> Please refer to the usage guidelines found here. >>> https://nanog.org/resources/usage-guidelines/ >>> >>> 14. Posts that encourage or facilitate an agreement about the following >>>> subjects are inappropriate: prices, discounts, or terms or conditions of >>>> sale; salaries; benefits, profits, profit margins, or cost data; market >>>> shares, sales territories, or markets; allocation of customers or >>>> territories; or selection, rejection, or termination of customers or >>>> suppliers. >>> >>> >>> I would tend to agree that while most of your posts to the list are >>> within the guidelines, there have been occasions where a reasonable person >>> could think you might be skirting the line a bit. In this case : >>> >>> - Your company works as a broker to procure capacity for others. >>> - You sent an email to the list that wording wise would be exactly the >>> same as many of us might send to someone they were looking for capacity >>> from. >>> >>> I think most would agree this is pretty clearly against both the usage >>> guidelines and the spirit of what this mailing list is about. >>> >>> I would also like to remind you that this list is administered by the >>> NANOG organization. You have no authority to tell others to 'cease and >>> desist', and insult someone as 'underemployed' is also not well tolerated >>> here. >>> >>> I have looped in the list admins here. It would probably be a good idea >>> to refrain from future messages that are clearly commercial in nature, or >>> that contain unnecessary insults. >>> >> > > > If only we had some way to segregate out different topics > of interest or disinterest, so that people who weren't interested > in questions about bandwidth availability could unsubscribe > from those topics, and only subscribe to the topics that *did* > interest them... > > #AFewDaysTooEarly > > ^_^;; > > Matt > > >
