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From: "Valdis Kletnieks" <Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu>
On Wed, 10 Aug 2011 21:22:11 EDT, Christopher Morrow said:
folks do get that deric's primary language isn't English right? so asking him to explain is probably 'ok'. (yes, he could have put more details into his mail, yes it would have been more helpful and quicker to an answer for him...)
Whatever else you might think of Eric S Raymond, the URL I cited is still the best summary I've seen, and probably the most help we can give Deric in under 64 bytes. Because let's face it, no matter *what* Deric's native language is, he's not going to get anything useful from NANOG or any other mailing list till he either reads Eric's FAQ, or otherwise learns the info in there.
Credit where due: "Smart Questions" was co-authored by Rick Moen, who apparently *couldn't* escape. (Pat yourself on the back if you got the reference, esoteric as it was.) And yes, that and Tatham are my two go-to references for people. Cheers, -- jra -- Jay R. Ashworth Baylink jra@baylink.com Designer The Things I Think RFC 2100 Ashworth & Associates http://baylink.pitas.com 2000 Land Rover DII St Petersburg FL USA http://photo.imageinc.us +1 727 647 1274