Re: Perhaps it's time to think about enhancements to the NANOG list...?

[Matt Harris <matt () netfire net>]

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On Mon, Mar 22, 2021 at 8:34 AM Noah <noah () neo co tz> wrote:

> Well baby boomers & gen-x will struggle to dump mail...I mean it simple
> and just works.
>
> We were trying to get a community of newbie techies mostly millennials &
> gen-z to actively engage on a list we subscribed them too for the past 2
> years and believe me, I can count no more than 10 posts mainly from we few
> mailing list folk...
>
> When we requested for feedback, them gen-z cried out loud for interactions
> to happen on some social media app through groups or channels, and since
> they are the target audience and the majority, we settled for discord and
> telegram which they actively engage on :-).
>
> We still maintain the mailing list though and most announcement are done
> via it but things are changing hey....

I'm a gen-x guy myself, but I've gotten into discord largely as a
replacement for IRC as it's declined over the past decade and a half and
there are some actual good communities on there at this point. There's
actually a very good network engineering discord group, even.

I definitely don't care for web-based forums personally, and like many
other folks, I don't even have a facebook account. Email lists are
extremely accessible as they don't require any third-party accounts, and
there's a lot of transparency in terms of how you'll be exposed - that is,
your email address/headers and the content of your messages may end up
public, but no one's harvesting all of your web visits via intrusive
cookies and such.

- Matt