In a message written on Wed, Dec 06, 2017 at 10:51:32AM -0800, Stephen Satchell wrote:
What professional engineers you mentioned do can kill people. I have yet to hear of anyone dying from a sysadmin or netadmin screwing up. (Other than dropping something heavy onto someone, using a fork lift incompetently, or building an unsafe raised floor.).
Some of the folks on this list run networks that carry 911 phone calls. A call not going through may well result in fatalities. I'm personally torn, I think the "Professional Engineer" things are 75% racket, and 25% good, but I also think the 'net continues to miss out on the 25% good and could seriously use some of it. -- Leo Bicknell - bicknell@ufp.org PGP keys at http://www.ufp.org/~bicknell/