[ipv6-wg at ripe.net] DNS Weather Report 2004-09-07

On Wed, Sep 08, 2004 at 05:07:22PM +0200, Daniel Karrenberg wrote:
> Sending *unsolicited* automatic reports to *multiple* mailing lists
> is considered bad netiquette.

And forwarding private email conversation to public mailinglists
without asking correspondees permission is not considered bad
netiquette? Double standards?

> In your case even more so since similar and better defined reports
> are available on demand from more than one source.

Obviously those have NOT lead to getting problems fixed. I was
SHOCKED about the ugly state of those vital infrastructure zones when
I did the first survey.

> It would have been more acceptable to say something like:
> "Hey, I have made this useful report. What do you think about it?
> If you are interested you can subscribe to regular reports here." 

That makes it easy to ignore the problems, eh? See my other mail
where I compare with the CIDR report.

> These days netiquette is violated so frequently that most people
> do not even care to point things out to violators;
> they just ignore messages from people who do not behave socially. 
> Procmail is an easy tool. 

Feel free to procmail me away.

> [I spent 6 minutes composing this message. Multiply by n>20 / day]

You've decided for yourself how much you expose yourself to public
communication.


Daniel