[90051] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Is your ISP Influenza-ready?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Joseph S D Yao)
Fri Apr 21 10:15:27 2006
Date: Fri, 21 Apr 2006 07:34:19 -0400
From: Joseph S D Yao <jsdy@center.osis.gov>
To: "David W. Hankins" <David_Hankins@isc.org>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
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On Tue, Apr 18, 2006 at 10:53:33AM -0700, David W. Hankins wrote:
...
> It's like someone intentionally optimized this function specifically to
> be the most pessimal.
...
If you know the word "pessimal" [malus, pejor, pessimus = bad, worse,
worst], you should know that "most pessimal" is redundant - perhaps
allowable for emphasis - and that "optimized to be pessimal" is so much
an oxymoron it must be deliberate. But why not just say "pessimized"?
;-)
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Joe Yao
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