[80539] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: On the record - debunking technical fallacies
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (David Barak)
Tue May 3 15:04:06 2005
Date: Tue, 3 May 2005 12:02:18 -0700 (PDT)
From: David Barak <thegameiam@yahoo.com>
To: Dean Anderson <dean@av8.com>, Michael.Dillon@radianz.com
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: 6667
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
--- Dean Anderson <dean@av8.com> wrote:
>
> On Tue, 3 May 2005 Michael.Dillon@radianz.com wrote:
> > I believe it is still necessary (and a good thing)
> to
> > post messages on the record that debunk technical
> fallacies.
>
> Thats right. That's why I debunk them. The lying
> children call me names.
> They really hate it when you debunk their fallacies.
<sigh>
I personally evaluate individual posters with the
following in mind: the more an individual has been
willing to publicly assert things which I know to not
be true, the less credit I give that individual's
opinions with regard to things about which I am not an
expert. The converse is true as well.
Dean has weighed in on topics such as router
architecture and the ubiquitousness of
packet-based-load-balancing in backbone networks, and
been thoroughly wrong. Lots of people demonstrated
his wrongness in these things, so I feel no need to
recap.
I have no connection to ISC, and have no personal axe
to grind.
David Barak
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