[44687] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Network Operations Luminaries?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Joel Baker)
Sun Dec 9 14:18:39 2001
From: "Joel Baker" <lucifer@lightbearer.com>
Date: Sun, 9 Dec 2001 12:18:11 -0700
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In-Reply-To: <Pine.NEB.4.33.0112070850100.5946-100000@woody.zocalo.net>; from woody@zocalo.net on Fri, Dec 07, 2001 at 09:01:22AM -0800
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On Fri, Dec 07, 2001 at 09:01:22AM -0800, Bill Woodcock wrote:
>
> The luminaries of our culture, if they exist, are the engineers who made
> the famous mistakes which are indelibly commited to our collective memory,
> from which the greatest number of other engineers have learned a lesson
> without replicating the learning experience first-hand.
>
> -Bill
Nomination:
Jeff "Ampersand" Rizzo. For teaching us all just *why* it is that you don't
want to redistribute BGP into your IGP. Or so goes the tale relayed to me.
While I worked at the relevant company at the relevant time, I didn't work
with the network there until a year or two later.
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