craig@NNSC.NSF.NET (Craig Partridge) (02/20/90)
Hi folks:
It seems to me that increasingly the TCP-IP list is being filled with
messages of the form "anyone know anything about product X?", to the
expense of interesting technical notes. (I have to plow through
the product junk mail to find the interesting stuff).
Does anyone else out there think it might be useful to create
a separate list for such requests and their answers? (If you are afraid
that by splitting off the product side, the questions won't get answered,
I assure you that the vendors have a large interest in seeing product
related questions answered, and given a vendor and its competitors are
both on the list, an answer is likely to be accurate).
Craiglouie@sayshell.umd.edu ("Louis A. Mamakos") (02/20/90)
YES! YES! Many of us are on the verge of dropping off the TCP-IP list because of the crummy signal-to-noise ratio lately. Not much of the traffic lately has had much to do with TCP-IP implementations and protocol issues. A seperate list, with those who are interested in products and things might be just what both groups of folks need. louie
kasten@interlan.interlan.COM (Frank Kastenholz) (02/21/90)
Craig, A separate product list might be useful - but what would be more useful would be to keep the list-of-lists more accurate. In a previous life, the product that I was working on had its own discussion list - and that list was very active and there was very little "noise" on the TCP-IP list. I think that the people who create these lists should be made more aware of the list-of-lists (I have no idea how :-) AND the folks in net-land should be more aware of it. This is not a problem for list-of-lists maintainers.. It is that this kind of information gets sort of lost in the folklore and new people don't know about it. Cheers Frank Kastenholz Racal Interlan