[92309] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Kremen's Buddy?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Stephane Bortzmeyer)
Wed Sep 13 16:58:29 2006
Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2006 22:41:13 +0200
From: Stephane Bortzmeyer <bortzmeyer@nic.fr>
To: Joe Abley <jabley@ca.afilias.info>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <8FA13152-19F0-48DF-8E92-ADEBA538F86F@ca.afilias.info>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On Tue, Sep 12, 2006 at 08:46:11PM -0400,
Joe Abley <jabley@ca.afilias.info> wrote
a message of 45 lines which said:
> It's confusing to me that there appears to be no shortage of people
> who are prepared to learn the three hundred ways of doing the same
> thing with perl, or how to dissect a core dump, or how BGP works,
> but who at the same time are not interested in reading the ARIN
> policy manual before making a request for resources.
I may be very special but I find learning a new programming language
or a new protocol much more fun than reading thick and boring policy
documents.
I've heard that lawyers or accountants have different tastes but I
believe they are rare on this mailing list.