Good morning all, OK First post to get us out of the fairly heavy emails that have pervaded inboxes! Yippee! As Chris Leug was already researching machine perception in the early 90s, I was a teenager on IRC #datechat (DALNET and other servers) on romantic journeys only to be fooled by, shall I say, a lot more convincing softbots. Enough said. I am reaching out to any researchers still looking at the archives of NanoG, or other NoGs representing other global regions, as well as any others into networked machine listening technologies (from packet sniffing, to shot spotter) where data is interpreted as if they were 'audio' signals? I used to read all of Nanog posts from 2006 to 2016 in my previous roles in internet policy, community labs, and telecom/wireless spectrum hacking. The selfless volunteer hours by full stack network professionals working for private and some, and expert individual volunteers was amazing to see. Especially when they came to rescue in fast response: to things like the BGP Loophole Exploit youtube ban by Pakistan, Bitcoin Mine DNS Loophole exploits or the Mediterranean submarine Cable cuts. There were larger outages in cable strikes that were reported in Nanog but didn't make 'news' elsewhere. The sort of multi-channel signal detection to manage network congestion, bringing up new nodes when some go down, looking for violations in BGP protocol and spurious/malicious servers and botnets, required human effort at a large scale, much like Air Traffic control. While automation might help, human decision is important at every step so that the entire country or globe is not subject to things like mass censorship. It is imperative that the new generation continues to ensure this through active involvement in policy and governance. These must be some focal points of our large community, and not get carried away by list-serv privacy, while the entire internet and networks were pretty much born to be mostly scrape-able. Regards Sharath