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From: jessea@dynasys.UUCP (Jesse W. Asher)
Newsgroups: news.admin,news.misc,comp.protocols.tcp-ip
Subject: Re: Network Operations discussion group
Keywords: network operations management
Message-ID: <763@dynasys.UUCP>
Date: 28 Dec 90 23:26:00 GMT
References: <1990Oct28.220432.521@ddsw1.MCS.COM> <1990Dec27.193143.29173@pa.dec.com>
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Organization: Dynasys:  Consulting for the Future.
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In article <1990Dec27.193143.29173@pa.dec.com>, dcrocker@dcrocker.pa.dec.com (Dave Crocker) wrote the following:
>At Interop, this Fall, a birds-of-a-feather session about network management
>surfaced a general desire for an online forum for discussing the realities
>of operating TCP/IP (and other) networks.  Such a forum is pointedly
>different from technology-related discussions, such as the ones for SNMP,
>which focus on one or more components or tools.

I definitely agree and have thought this was needed for some time.  I have
even posted a few articles in news.groups to see if anyone was interested
in creating a newsgroup for this purpose.  I didn't get any responses, but
that really shouldn't be too suprising considering that I didn't cross-post
to this newsgroup.  There is a large difference between discussing the 
inards of the tcp-ip suite and discussing how to set up bind or how slip
should be set up.  These things have been discussed in this group, but I 
don't think they belong here.  They also don't belong in comp.unix.admin
(another group that such subjects get posted to) - at least the non-unix
specific parts don't.  What about creating a newsgroup for this type
of posting instead of a mailing list?

-- 
      Jesse W. Asher                             Phone: (901)382-1609 
               6196-1 Macon Rd., Suite 200, Memphis, TN 38134
                UUCP: {fedeva,chromc,rutgers}!dynasys!jessea