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Rumy Kanis
rumy at ripe.net
Wed Oct 26 10:49:59 CEST 2016
Hello, > where are the webinars on how to be a good mailing list citizen, both > technically and socially? what's consensus (the ietf has tried)? how > to best make your point on the list sans flaming and ad homina? That’s an excellent idea Randy. We do cover this in our face-to-face courses, but we’ll definitely look into creating an online module on mailing list ettiquette - either in webinar or in video format. Thanks and kind regards, Rumy Spratley-Kanis Training Services Manger RIPE NCC > On 25 Oct 2016, at 13:07, Randy Bush <randy at psg.com> wrote: > > < rant > > >> Ripe NCC wages a continuous war against this sort of thing. > > that's nice. but when it happens to me, were do i send the error? > >> Unfortunately there seems to be an inexhaustible supply of idiots. > > ad homina. > > our culture has 492 non-obvious conventions; one of them being not to > have your vacation message or noc ticket responder reply to mailing > list postings. and it is not always easy to convince your software to > detect a mailing list message. and the learning curve is steep. > > the ripe culture is so frelling complex that the ncc provides training > courses and webinars (what a miserable word) to teach members how to > use the basic product. there is likely a webinar explaining what all > the webinars and courses are; or there probably needs to be one. if > the ncc did not have a monopoly on renting integers, it would be out of > business in six months. > > where are the webinars on how to be a good mailing list citizen, both > technically and socially? what's consensus (the ietf has tried)? how > to best make your point on the list sans flaming and ad homina? and > don't tell me it's on the web site. when a coworker first visited the > maze of ncc offices, she said she finally understood the web site > design. > > the list goes on. we are obscure and intimidating; and a newcomers' > session for those who can afford flights and fancy hotels is a drop in > the ocean. the outreach to regional meetings is a great step, credit > to that. > > randy >
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