Re: [ipv6-wg@ripe.net] DNS Weather Report 2004-09-07

[Daniel Karrenberg <]

Since a storm seems to be rising about this 
and it threatens to leave the tea cup here 
is some perspective. 

Daniel


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Date: Wed, 8 Sep 2004 08:21:23 +0200
From: Daniel Karrenberg <daniel.karrenberg@localhost
To: Daniel Roesen dr@localhost
Subject: Re: [ipv6-wg@localhost] DNS Weather Report 2004-09-07

On 08.09 00:00, Daniel Roesen wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 07, 2004 at 11:49:48AM +0200, Daniel Karrenberg wrote:
> > On 07.09 01:08, Daniel Roesen wrote:
> > > DNS WEATHER REPORT for selected infrastructure zones
> > > ====================================================
> > 
> > Please stop spamming mailing lists.
> 
> OK, you made me curious. Why do you (you are the first, all the other
> feedback was overly positive) consider this "spamming"?

Sending *unsolicited* automatic reports to *multiple* mailing lists
is considered bad netiquette. In your case even more so since 
similar and better defined reports are available on demand from
more than one source.

It would have been more acceptable to say something like:
"Hey, I have made this useful report. What do you think about it?
If you are interested you can subscribe to regular reports here." 

These days netiquette is violated so frequently that most people
do not even care to point things out to violators;
they just ignore messages from people who do not behave socially. 
Procmail is an easy tool. 

[I spent 6 minutes composing this message. Multiply by n>20 / day]

> And: was your request as a representant of the RIPE NCC, or as a
> private person?

Take it as advice from me as a person. The RIPE NCC does not police
RIPE mailing lists.

Daniel

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