[90058] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Is your ISP Influenza-ready?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Joseph S D Yao)
Fri Apr 21 11:36:18 2006
Date: Fri, 21 Apr 2006 11:33:58 -0400
From: Joseph S D Yao <jsdy@center.osis.gov>
To: Jay Hennigan <jay@west.net>
Cc: "David W. Hankins" <David_Hankins@isc.org>, nanog@merit.edu
Mail-Followup-To: Jay Hennigan <jay@west.net>,
"David W. Hankins" <David_Hankins@isc.org>, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <4448F4F1.1080809@west.net>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On Fri, Apr 21, 2006 at 08:06:25AM -0700, Jay Hennigan wrote:
> 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. :-)
Optimally, it would be so.
--
Joe Yao
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