Re: Perhaps it's time to think about enhancements to the NANOG list...?

...not to mention that all mature networks are moving more towards GUI front ends for their automated network. As the complexity of a network increases, CLI access becomes considerably more risky.

The idea that "real engineers use the CLI" is dinosaur thinking that will eventually land those with that philosophy out of a job. Just my personal $.02 (though I'm certainly not alone in my opinion).

real engineers write code to do it. and gooeys get in the way something awful. remember cascade?