Nail -> Head <- Hammer Well put ! I don’t know if it could have been put better than that.
-- J. Hellenthal The fact that there's a highway to Hell but only a stairway to Heaven says a lot about anticipated traffic volume. > On Mar 23, 2021, at 10:57, Emil Pfeffer <e...@emuadmin.com> wrote: > > On Tue, Mar 23, 2021 at 09:20:14AM -0500, Mike Hammett wrote: >> "But why it should or shouldn't be clicked..." >> Sorta like most man pages. > > They both need prior knowledge to use. > We tend to simplify things in order to save time but then the new generation > comes > in and thinks the simple things it's all there is and have no willingness to > go > back in time and accumulate "useless" knowledge. It is useless because the > problems > it fixes were already fixed but it is paramount in understanding whats behind > the > simple things. Knowledge can only be simplified so much and there's no > shortcut to > accumulating it. (hence why most people will prefer to just use the tools) > > The generational gap is not an issue it is how things need to be. The network > engineering the younger generation deals with is not the same networking the > old > generation deals with but built upon this old networks. This two generations > do > not need the same knowledge and it is in each others best interest that they > stay > separated. Although we would gladly help someone that is obviously putting in > the > effort and is looking to learn we have not volunteered to be teachers and > some people > need to understand that we prefer to keep it simple because we have no time > to waste. > > It is easy to believe that the method you are using is the one but eventually > the good ones will have to pass the test of time which mailling lists and a > plethora > of the old tools successfully did. > --