[105259] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Cable Colors
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Steven M. Bellovin)
Mon Jun 16 20:26:27 2008
Date: Mon, 16 Jun 2008 20:25:57 -0400
From: "Steven M. Bellovin" <smb@cs.columbia.edu>
To: Peter Wohlers <pedro@whack.org>
In-Reply-To: <485700C6.2020302@whack.org>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces@nanog.org
On Mon, 16 Jun 2008 17:09:42 -0700
Peter Wohlers <pedro@whack.org> wrote:
> About 7% of the male population in the US has red-green
> colorblindness, so keep that in mind.
At least in my son's case, bright colors -- like the typical red and
green cables -- are easily distinguishable. Pastels are more of a
problem. But for proper cabling, see
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000I1X6PM -- and make sure you read
the comments...
--Steve Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb
