[members-discuss] Is mailing list become too small for RIPE?

Hi

I believe we all agree that there is a communication problem to be
solved, with forum or not(in which was just one idea I propose, if you
have a better one, please do share), we need to solve the problem
here. Yes, some people here might able to deal with 1000 mail per day
traffic from single list, but I believe there are quite amount of us,
especially for the new comers(the outbreak of getting off the list
request), it really wasn't the case.

Moreover, I guess we all realise RIPE NCC member base have been quite
bit evolved not only the numbers of members, but the diversities too.

In my personal view, it's a good thing, end of the day, internet
belong to everyone, and in order to make it belong to everyone, the
lower the barrier, the better the game.

How to make things comfortable for those recent joined 10,000 member,
and increasingly joining 2000 of them each year, are serious topic
need to be discussed.

But hey, again, I am just proposing a solution to the problem here,
for the good of the community, and if you think you have a better
idea, please share it as well so we can discuss, and I am pretty sure
I am no way to be the smartest here(I will feel pretty lucky if I am
not the most stupid here consider how many smart people work in our
industry).




On Sat, Feb 20, 2016 at 7:16 PM, Gert Doering <gert at space.net> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Fri, Feb 19, 2016 at 04:40:34PM +0100, Jérôme Nicolle wrote:
>> We're not a LUser base, we're educated internet members. If someone here
>> is unable to handle proper (RFC 2822 text only) mail, with usual ML
>> rules, maybe he shouldn't even be a LIR.
>>
>> There's nothing wrong with keeping the good old ways of doing things :
>> usenet and mailing-listes have proven to be the only required tools to
>> build the Internet until now.
>>
>> Perhabps HTML mail clients, bots and top-posters should be banned and
>> radiated form RIPE membership???
>
> This would free quite a bit of IPv4 resources at the same time, so all
> for it!
>
> Seriously: while your suggestion brought a slightly weary smile to my
> face, and I certainly miss the old days where people knew what RIPE or
> BGP is, we'll have to deal with an amazing amount of lack of education.
>
> So indeed, maybe more frequent push infos from the RIPE NCC on what this
> list is about, why people are on it (and how to get off it) might be
> the right way forward.
>
> I don't think forums are the way to go...
>
> Gert Doering
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Kind regards.
Lu