[ripe-list] cull

< rant >

> Ripe NCC wages a continuous war against this sort of thing.

that's nice.  but when it happens to me, were do i send the error?

> Unfortunately there seems to be an inexhaustible supply of idiots.

ad homina.

our culture has 492 non-obvious conventions; one of them being not to
have your vacation message or noc ticket responder reply to mailing
list postings.  and it is not always easy to convince your software to
detect a mailing list message.  and the learning curve is steep.

the ripe culture is so frelling complex that the ncc provides training
courses and webinars (what a miserable word) to teach members how to
use the basic product.  there is likely a webinar explaining what all
the webinars and courses are; or there probably needs to be one.  if
the ncc did not have a monopoly on renting integers, it would be out of
business in six months.

where are the webinars on how to be a good mailing list citizen, both
technically and socially?  what's consensus (the ietf has tried)?  how
to best make your point on the list sans flaming and ad homina?  and
don't tell me it's on the web site.  when a coworker first visited the
maze of ncc offices, she said she finally understood the web site
design.

the list goes on.  we are obscure and intimidating; and a newcomers'
session for those who can afford flights and fancy hotels is a drop in
the ocean.  the outreach to regional meetings is a great step, credit
to that.

randy