They're all coming out of the wood work...
I'm not a network op but I look at this list with interest as I know do friends
of mine, I'm against the idea of moderating or closing this list because
although we lurkers don't generally post there may come a time where we have
something useful to post, or an on topic question...would you rather we harass
one of the members to post this us or email them individually asking them our
questions?
I generally have a lot of respect for NOs and although you maybe/are part of the
'elite', closing the list to people who don't have the 'right' job (even if they
have the knowledge or the desire to learn) seems to be going rather far to me.
Also you did say leave the archives open, I may just be weird (I have been told
so many times) but there is something different about being subbed to a list (a
long with my first point)
BTW, do you really want to see a message every times someone goes to subscribe?
- Karl
Quoting Simon Blake
Rather than moderate the content, why not just close list membership? Delete everybody off the list, add back on the people you know are genuine NZ network operators, and set the list up so that requests to join get sent to some group of moderators (or to the list). Then, vett new requests to join through the current members. Leave the web pages and archives public, so that the world can still read about what we're up to.
Yes, it's cliquey, yes, it's elitist, but well, who cares. It's the Network Operators Group - we need to get it a back on topic PDQ, otherwise it'll cease to have any relevancy to the community it seeks to serve, and it'll get replaced with something else (that probably will have a closed membership).
Cheers Si