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[Christopher <weblionx AT gmail.com>]

I'd say (B), as it's similar to what we've been doing, we're just
making it better on folks that don't care about the technical details.

On Mon, Nov 2, 2015 at 3:27 PM, Martin Albus <info AT rdns.cc> wrote:
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> B)
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> On 11/02/2015 05:16 PM, Jeff Taylor wrote:
>> Would anyone else care to comment on this?  The topic has been dead
>> for the past two weeks but we never really reached a solution.  I
>> just re-read the thread, and it seems like the responses are pretty
>> evenly divided between:
>>
>> A) Set limitations per person, but do not count sponsored servers
>> in those limits
>>
>> B) Do not enforce any limitations, allow members to add as many
>> servers as they have, but code the nearest-server page to spread
>> the suggested IP's across multiple admins.
>>
>> One caveat we've run in to while asking sponsors to send an email
>> to opennic administration -- none of the sponsors seem to be
>> willing or have the time to write an email.  While it still seems
>> prudent to try and impose *some* restrictions, the reality seems to
>> be that nobody is willing to even try and work with us on the
>> matter.
>>
>> In addition to unresponsive sponsors, we've had admins deleting all
>> of their servers in protest of having any limitations at all (in
>> case anyone has wondered why the number of available servers has
>> fluctuated a lot lately), and on IRC an almost daily stream of
>> "shdwdrgn is solely responsible for preventing me from adding more
>> servers to the list". Fine, whatever, fortunately it's not up to me
>> to make policy for opennic, I just step in to do damage control
>> when needed.
>>
>> So folks, let's hear it.  Do you want to see option A) or B)
>> implemented?  Just give me an email vote of which way opennic
>> should handle this issue, and we can move forward from there.
>>
>>
>> On 10/21/2015 04:07 PM, Jacob Bachmeyer wrote:
>>> Jeff Taylor wrote:
>>>> ok folks, so what do we want to do here?  Shall we implement a
>>>> calculation to limit the number of servers an individual can
>>>> add to the pool, or shall we leave the list wide-open like it
>>>> was before, and use the suggestions for the nearest-server IPs
>>>> to limit the fallout if a user removes all their servers?  We
>>>> need to decide how we're going to handle this.
>>> For what it's worth, I favor sorting the list rather than
>>> limiting it.  Maybe we should also have a message explaining that
>>> server operators are volunteers and can choose to leave so having
>>> servers with different operators is a good idea?
>>>
>>> I would even suggest that the "best servers for you" list should
>>> never have more than one server from any one operator in the top
>>> 3.  Pick servers from adjacent regions if needed, but always have
>>> the top 3 be from three different operators.
>>>
>>>
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