[841] in North American Network Operators' Group
Professionalism, etc...
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jeff Young)
Thu Nov 2 08:20:05 1995
To: Tim Bass <bass@dune.silkroad.com>
cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 01 Nov 1995 14:38:25 EST."
<199511011938.OAA03210@dune.silkroad.com>
Date: Thu, 02 Nov 1995 08:09:35 -0500
From: "Jeff Young" <young@mci.net>
> > From: Michael Dillon <michael@memra.com>
> > Sure it has. But a lot of professionals have the attitude that details
> > need to be hashed out discreetly in private so that a polished,
> > professional front can be shown in public.
>
> Let's look at this statement and discuss professionalism a little
> for fun.
>
ok tim, lets do that but just for fun :-)
exactly how should the professional react to the following:
[an earlier message from tim]...
>
>Thanks for all the spam.....
>
>these posting are like kindergarden of IP users with
>little answers like:
>
>" please keep in mind that pings add traffic to the net "
>
>Blah, blah. blah. I'm sure I'm not the only one on the
>net that considers these little ' oh, tie your shoe
>before walking ... so called, help messages ' and the
>' make sure to put all the hair in your pants before
> zipping your zipper..... notes ... SPAMtastic
>
>Honestly, how some people who just learned how to PING or
>do BGP now believe that everyone else on the net needs their
>advice on the net is a mystery.
a good manager praises in public, resolves 'personal'
differences in private but that didn't work - no response.
perhaps if we had ever met i might have seen some cause for
the tirade above - we haven't. perhaps if i were some
newby that "just learned to bgp" i'd have crawled back into
some hole - i'm not.
so forgive me if i have trouble sitting idly by while tim
"waxes poetic" about the meaning of life and how to be a
professional in the 90's. in your own words tim,
"spamtastic"
Jeff Young
young@mci.net
