[24923] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: "Engineer" (Was: Tech contact for Qwest?)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (J.D. Falk)
Mon Aug 23 11:50:12 1999
Date: Mon, 23 Aug 1999 08:48:29 -0700
From: "J.D. Falk" <jdfalk@cybernothing.org>
To: Vadim Antonov <avg@kotovnik.com>
Cc: david@brouda.com, nanog@merit.edu
Mail-Followup-To: Vadim Antonov <avg@kotovnik.com>, david@brouda.com,
nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <199908230651.XAA06539@kitty.kotovnik.com>; from Vadim Antonov on Sun, Aug 22, 1999 at 11:51:03PM -0700
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
On 08/22/99, Vadim Antonov <avg@kotovnik.com> wrote:
>
> David Brouda <david@brouda.com> wrote:
>
> > Now, I have mentioned three key words: engineer, professional, and ethics.
> > As a student of engineering, I believe that these three words go
> > hand-in-hand.
>
> The facts that somebody is being professional, educated and ethical does not
> guarantee that he has any idea of what he is doing. The catch is that a
> clueless person is generally unware that he's clueless, so he can be quite
> eithcal and professional in what he thinks he is doing. Watch the hordes
> of ATM zealots - many of them with very impressive credentials. Does not
> make their "contribution" any more worthwhile.
Yeah, but at least they have a code of ethics. Where'd ours
go?
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