[90056] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Is your ISP Influenza-ready?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jay Hennigan)
Fri Apr 21 11:06:56 2006
Date: Fri, 21 Apr 2006 08:06:25 -0700
From: Jay Hennigan <jay@west.net>
To: "David W. Hankins" <David_Hankins@isc.org>, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <20060421113419.GF11585@core.center.osis.gov>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
Joseph S D Yao wrote:
> 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"?
Oh, stop being such a pessimist. :-)
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