From: MADMAN (dave@interprise.com)
Date: Tue Apr 15 2003 - 11:06:36 GMT-3
What! Are you saying you don't know everything!!! ;)
Dave, still learning!!!
Mike Williams wrote:
> Jim Brown said:
>
> "I always made the comment what kind of engineer would they be if they
> couldn't even figure it out own their own and had to post it to the
> list."
>
> This is nonsense. If what you're saying is true, then virtually this
> entire list is a list of piss-poor engineers (i.e. people who ask
> questions of others because they CAN'T figure it out). I can't tell you
> how many times others people, including myself, have come to this list
> and posted real world problems, not because "I'm not a good engineer",
> but even studying or even passing the lab can't prepare you for
> everything. There are sometimes flaws in the IOS or bugs in the
> hardware that cause issues that make no sense. And having "a virtual
> community of network engineer" (The Groupstudy motto) is a priceless
> asset. That doesn't make me or anyone else less of a good engineer. It
> makes us smart because we have enough sense to bounce problems off of
> others that are also knowledgable.
>
> Mike W.
>
>
-- David Madland CCIE# 2016 Sr. Network Engineer Qwest Communications 612-664-3367I would rather have a German division in front of me than a French one behind me." --- General George S. Patton
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