On 12/05/2017 08:17 AM, Harald Koch wrote:
Thirty years ago I started my sysadmin journey on an Internet that was filled with helpful, experienced people that were willing to share their knowledge.
Twenty years ago I was one of three people running CA*net, the cross-Canada research Internet with three connections to the NSFnet. I don't remember this world of banishment and exile you're discussing; the NSFnet staff I dealt with were all friendly and helpful.
I plan to continue to "pay it forward", by being friendly and helpful to "novice sysadmins". The curmudgeons in this thread can, frankly, get off my lawn.
Exactly right. If there were some high priesthood for being able to put stuff on the net, there would be no net as we know it. This is a feature, not a bug. Mike