Re: trolling

[Jon Lewis via NANOG <nanog () lists nanog org>]

I had the same recollection.

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> On Nov 8, 2025, at 4:49 PM, William Herrin via NANOG <nanog () lists nanog org> wrote:
>
> On Sat, Nov 8, 2025 at 1:00 PM Tom Beecher <beecher () beecher cc> wrote:
> > > I vaguely recall a rule on the mailing list, lightly enforced, that
> > > participants were expected to use their own real names. I believe the
> > > grounds for it was that this is a professional forum intended to
> > > facilitate discussion between professionals.
> >
> > There is no such rule today, nor has there ever been one that I can ever remember.
>
> Hi Tom,
>
> Then I must be thinking of a different mailing list.
>
> Nevertheless, while I agree that the words should matter more than the
> speaker, I think there's a degree of professionalism missing from
> anonymized messages and that matters too.
>
> Regards,
> Bill Herrin
>
>
>
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