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

[Jarno Lähteenmäki <]

I'm not considering the report as a spam but...

The report would be more usefull if you send a summary on a monthly 
basis. Sending the report daily or even weekly is way too often...

If needed you can provide daily snapshots somewhere else
(a web page perhaps?).


--> Jarno Lähteenmäki


Jeroen Massar wrote:
> On Wed, 2004-09-08 at 17:07, Daniel Karrenberg wrote:
>
> > Since a storm seems to be rising about this 
> > and it threatens to leave the tea cup here 
> > is some perspective. 
> Which book is that from?
>
> <SNIP>
>
> > 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.
> I really can't call it spam, there was nothing unsolicited inside it,
> they where not autogenerated, did not contain any off-topic contents and
> it did not advertise for anything.
>
>
> > In your case even more so since 
> > similar and better defined reports are available on demand from
> > more than one source.
> Which sources may that be that report about nameservers?
> (There is unfortunatly no IPv6-wg resource page and google can't
> seem to find them for me either)
>
> Next to that, it is quite apparent that the operator(s) in question
> are not really watching their own infrastructure, which is basically
> their work, at all.... that gives one to wonder...
>
>
> > 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." 
> Indeed, where can I request to signup for this as I think it is very
> useful, even more useful than the CIDR report, which doesn't change as
> the people at the top are simply ignoring it anyways. Nameservers though
> are technically important, if they are configured wrongly then they
> don't work and they break stuff and especially at the level what was
> being reported about I think it is a very important technical report.
>
>
> > 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. 
> Indeed, that is the way most people do it and they do it silently
> without making it publicly noticeable that they have something,
> whatever that may be 'against' some person/company or his/her/it's
> beliefs. That is why I always use one single mail address for posting
> my own personal beliefs, if you want to add it to the killfile have fun
> doing so, responses coming back from persons who don't like you won't
> be productive in any way thus it only saves a lot of useless mails.
>
> Greets,
>  Jeroen
>
> (Only took me <1 min to type this ;)