This list serves a number of purposes and one of them is to answer
technical networking questions. But this list is also not the only
place that these types of questions are asked. For instance, LinkedIn
has a Q&A feature where people can ask and answer questions on a wide
range of topics. Just today I came across this BGP question:
http://www.linkedin.com/answers/technology/information-technology/computer-networking/TCH_ITS_CNW/792993-20766406
I would never suggest that LinkedIn could replace the NANOG mailing
list, but it is an interesting complement to it. There is a NANOG
group here: http://www.linkedin.com/groups?mostPopular=&gid=40718 and
a number of people are using LinkedIn for professional purposes. I
know many of you tried out Orkut and then migrated to Multiply.com and
found them lacking. But I would suggest that LinkedIn might be more
useful, in particular, to provide an entry level tier for questions.
A lot of NANOG members are rather intimidated to ask questions which
might seem too beginner and I think that the NANOG group on LinkedIn
might be a good place to encourage such questions in order to draw out
more discussion among NANOG members without boosting the mailing list
traffic.
What do you think? (Probably best to answer this on the NANOG group over at...
--Michael Dillon
http://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=13566587
I'm never afraid to ask a question, just as long as I've done my homework (due diligence)
and not using this group to do work for me.
Believe me, this group has helped me tremendously.
As for LinkedIN, I have nothing against, it, but I don't use it. I don't have an account on it
and not sure I ever want to. I'm already slightly on facebook, and very active on twitter,
so nothing against linkedin, but there's just too many social media websites to keep track of....
Perhaps one day I will give it a try.....
=)
Brandon
Michael Dillon (wavetossed) writes:
What do you think? (Probably best to answer this on the NANOG group over at...
Hmm, wouldn't http://serverfault.com/ or http://www.quora.com/ be a more
appropriate / efficient forum for technical questions ? Or does it have
to be NANOG specific ?
http://www.quora.com/Border-Gateway-Protocol-1/How-does-BGP-work?q=how+does+as+prepend+work+in+bgp
Posts containing 'how does bgp work' - Server Fault
Cheers,
Phil
As for LinkedIN, I have nothing against, it, but I don't use it. I don't
have an account on it
and not sure I ever want to. I'm already slightly on facebook, and very
active on twitter,
so nothing against linkedin, but there's just too many social media websites
to keep track of....
There are no perfect solutions. It seems to me that Twitter is not
conducive to technical Q&A and given the choice between Facebook and
LinkedIn, it seems that the professional social network is more likely
to gain traction. Nobody has to participate if they don't want to;
it's just about adding a choice and seeing whether or not people
really want this kind of thing.
Hmm, wouldn't http://serverfault.com/ or http://www.quora.com/ be a more
appropriate / efficient forum for technical questions ? Or does it have
to be NANOG specific ?
Never heard of Quora and that seems to be tied to Facebook, so not
ideal. As for serverfault, that is a good idea but serverfault is not
really for general IP networking questions related to routing and
switching or ISP networking. Therefore, I have proposed that the
operators of ServerFault and StackOverflow create a new site called
NANOG (maybe it shouldn't be exactly that name).
http://area51.stackexchange.com/proposals/29470/nanog
If you have questions, comments, or want to commit to using the site
for Q&A, please visit it and join in. It accepts Google, Yahoo,
MyOpenID, AOL and Facebook credentials.
--Michael Dillon
They don't.
The issue is *really* knowledge capture -- not the getting to the solutions,
but the keeping of them for later.
I set up a wikia for this, 3 and more years ago. Crickets.
Cheers,
-- jra
Did you just dis Facebook while plugging linked-in?
Jack (continuing to ask stupid and redundant questions on NANOG)