[180603] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: eBay is looking for network heavies...
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (shawn wilson)
Mon Jun 8 01:47:16 2015
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Date: Mon, 8 Jun 2015 01:47:14 -0400
From: shawn wilson <ag4ve.us@gmail.com>
To: Jay Ashworth <jra@baylink.com>
Cc: North American Network Operators Group <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces@nanog.org
On Jun 8, 2015 1:42 AM, "shawn wilson" <ag4ve.us@gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Jun 7, 2015 10:59 PM, "Jay Ashworth" <jra@baylink.com> wrote:
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> > I don't
> > RTFM, I google. It's often faster, so many of TFMs are online now.
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> Until Google supports regex and some of the duckduckgo module features,
I'll be faster getting to reference to you will on Google. Notice I said
reference, not an answer - sometimes you care more about the background
than the answer (like if you're filing a bug).
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> man /perldoc /rdoc /:help /etc is where it's at (and allows me to answer
lots of questions with man foo =C2=A6 grep bar - which is still bad but doe=
sn't
have such a negative feeling that lmgtfy or a Google link does). Also
notice I intentionally left out the failed 'info' pages :)
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> Point here is that "Google" is probably the wrong answer here.
Oh this NANOG and manufacturers have different levels of documentation, so
I guess s/wrong/incomplete/ is more apt.
