[atlas] Positively meant critique …

LS.

Is there a kind of common understanding what this mailing list is about? What its purpose is? 

I see important discussions such as those on private measurements but no conclusions… I ask questions that lead to response from a RIPE employee but not to answers/solutions…

(For instance on why results from first hop measurement to ping.ripe.net cannot be reported on by Magellan.)

Can RIPE give some explanation what the use for them is of this mailing list?

Are there other entries into RIPE for support questions?

Would some kind of forum not be a much better solution to discuss matters with probe “owners” instead of using old fashioned unstructured mailing lists… the way we did things when the internet was in its infancy?

Regards,

Ernst J. Oud