I'm really bothered by posts from anonymous or unverifiable email
addresses that slam companies, countries, authors, immigration
policies, and rumors about planned Cisco attacks. When I make a
public post, there's no question who is making it.
Is this Berkowitz just being crotchety, or does this mean anything to
anyone's career? I think the latter. In the IETF, for example,
there are people who have a lifelong reputation of trying to Do The
Right Thing. Paul Vixie and Vint Cerf, for example, are people whose
reputations are such that they can make comments about a competitor
and have their statement accepted as true to the best of their
knowledge.
Perhaps not at entry level, where the lower-level certifications are
most important, but as one moves to higher levels, reputation is
important. I am NOT saying not to make claims about things that
irritate you. I am saying to do it, when you do, in a manner that
helps your reputation and that of the industry as a whole.
Personally, I am close to killfiling groupstudy (and other technical)
list posts that originate from throwaway email services such as
hotmail. Here's my reasoning.
If you don't use a free access service (e.g., free dialup/DSL for
advertising), you have to be paying for an ISP, or gaining access via
an employer, academic, or library account.
An ISP account normally includes POP3 access. The cost of additional
mailboxes normally is trivial, if perhaps you want different
mailboxes for personal and business matters. Even if you need to get
to your personal account from work, many intranets allow external
POP3 connectivity.
If someone really needs the web-based mail interfaces of a
hotmail-type service rather than using POP3 with any of a number of
email clients (including browsers), I'd really be uncomfortable with
them configuring my routers.
Believe me, someone who posts from an anonymous account, uses "email
slang" such as "u" rather than "you," etc., is not improving their
image in the industry. And image can't be ignored completely.
--
"What Problem are you trying to solve?"
***send Cisco questions to the list, so all can benefit -- not
directly to me***
Howard C. Berkowitz [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Technical Director, CertificationZone.com
Senior Mgr., IP Protocols & Algorithms, NortelNetworks (for ID only)
but Cisco stockholder!
"retired" Certified Cisco Systems Instructor (CID) #93005
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