[Community-Discuss] AFRINIC-31 Meeting
Ndanga brice
ndangabrice at gmail.com
Mon Nov 18 17:27:39 UTC 2019
Could someone tell me if l could get the visa for Afrinic 31 once arrive at
the airport of Angola? Otherwise what should l do?
Le dim. 17 nov. 2019 à 17:58, Mark Tinka <mark.tinka at seacom.mu> a écrit :
> I'm not sure having a meeting-specific mailing list helps here, because it
> assumes that attendees will always register.
>
> Brokers (and in particular, brokers who spam) can't be guaranteed to
> register, or more specifically, follow the rules. They could just show up
> as regular hotel guests, not register for the conference, and reach out to
> AFRINIC members like they did me and many others, to organize sidebar
> meetings, cocktails, dinners, e.t.c. This, I believe, is far more likely
> than anything else above-board.
>
> So the best defence is to equip the membership to not get caught up in
> this whirlwind, should they be called to the side by the brokers.
>
> Mark.
>
> On 17/Nov/19 17:05, Augustine CHII Ngek wrote:
>
> +1 Nishal
> We can simply go back to that tradition and see how it helps us in this
> present circumstances.
> Augustine CHII NGEK
>
> On Sun, 17 Nov 2019, 13:50 Nishal Goburdhan, <nishal at controlfreak.co.za>
> wrote:
>
>> On 17 Nov 2019, at 13:09, JORDI PALET MARTINEZ via Community-Discuss
>> wrote:
>>
>> > I don’t think AFRINIC publishes an attendee list, an even less with
>> > contact emails, so not sure how that will work.
>> > At least, I just looked at the website (and recent events websites)
>> > and couldn’t find it.
>>
>> many years ago, there were meeting-specific mailing lists, so that
>> meeting attendees could share taxi rides, find dinner partners, or
>> jogging trails, .. etc. without spamming regular mailing lists. if you
>> weren’t registered for the specific meeting (and presumably onsite)
>> you were saved from the span of “where is a nice place to .. “ type
>> messages, which were only really contextually useful for meeting
>> attendees. the lists were killed shortly after the meeting.
>>
>> that process was unfortunately discontinued.
>>
>> -n.
>>
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