Just to clarify, John is a friend and I immediately took it as a joke. If it wasn't, I'll turn him into a Bay AN. :-)
Howard At 4:02 PM -0400 5/1/02, Roberts, Larry wrote: >I believe the original e-mail was sarcastic. I don't believe anyone could >truly be that closed minded. >I suspect that it was a knock at those that who think that someone can only >know what they are talking about if they have >The 4 letters and 4 numbers after their name. > >Thanks > >Larry > >-----Original Message----- >From: Paul Jin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] >Sent: Wednesday, May 01, 2002 1:18 PM >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: RE: To The Experts and Gurus [7:42996] > > >Hi John, > >I see your concern, but would have to disagree to a certain degree. > >Certification is very important, and vast discussion here in groupstudy is >dedicated to Cisco cert, but not everything is a cisco world. I am not >saying we should start discussing, the difference between VB and C++ here >but I still welcome networking discussion in general that is related to >being a network engineer. > >In agreeing with you, I would like to somehow limit posting that is totally >irrelevant so we can have some focus but I don't think talking only about >Cisco equipment and only by CCIE is an answer. > >My goal is to be a professional network engineer, and Cisco is my main >product, but I don't want to limit my knowledge to just that or listen to >CCIEs only. > >Many Corporate executive jobs require bachelors and masters degrees, but >there are presidents and CEOs that never went or finished college, so should >we exclude listening to them about running a business? > >Certs are important, but I don't think we should limit people because they >do not have a certain cert. > >- Paul Message Posted at: http://www.groupstudy.com/form/read.php?f=7&i=43036&t=42996 -------------------------------------------------- FAQ, list archives, and subscription info: http://www.groupstudy.com/list/cisco.html Report misconduct and Nondisclosure violations to [EMAIL PROTECTED]