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REMINDER: Error messages should include parameters
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jay Ashworth)
Tue Oct 15 18:17:47 2013
Date: Tue, 15 Oct 2013 18:17:32 -0400 (EDT)
From: Jay Ashworth <jra@baylink.com>
To: NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>
Cc: outages-discussion <outages-discussion@outages.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
Off the Yahoo MX discussion, just a reminder for those who write code:
*Always* include the parameters in the error message; pronouns and
implicit references are Evil, Bad and Wrong. The 30 seconds you take to
add the actual name of what you can't find/talk to could save some sysadmin
*weeks* (I am not making that up; something once took me weeks).
We now return you to your normal router configuration conversations.
Cheers,
-- jra
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Jay R. Ashworth Baylink jra@baylink.com
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