On 6/29/16 3:13 PM, Michael J Wise wrote:
On 6/29/16 2:30 PM, Michael J Wise wrote:
I will read up on it. Thank you for the link.
Not everyone, I think, who visits this list is an engineer.
In that you are mistaken.
Almost everyone who subscribes to this mailing-list is an engineer.
Please re-read that line.
This mailing list is for people who need to configure or make changes to
the configuration of a Mail Transfer Agent called Postfix.
Some people here actually suggest software changes, since the author of
the system is present on the list.
Pretty much everyone here is an engineer.
I could be wrong, but I expect that many of the folks here are NOT
engineers.
I guess it depends on one's definition of, "Engineer".
It can cover a lot of ground.
Well... for purposes of discussion, let's restrict "Engineer" to mean
someone who:
- has a degree in an engineering or engineering related technical field
- has, at one time or another, held a position that included the word
"Engineer" in his/her title
- actually done some engineering along the way (be it R&D or development)
- with some allowance for special cases who don't meet all of the above
(example: Ray Kurzweil has an MIT degree, in MUSIC - I'd certainly
consider him an engineer, and then some)
- on the other hand, I wouldn't consider someone with a business degree,
even with an MIS concentration, to be an Engineer - even though that's a
fairly common background for CIOs and MIS Directors (and maybe sys
admins?), you wouldn't hire them to design system software or network gear
- let's NOT include train drivers :-)
Cheers,
Miles
--
In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice.
In practice, there is. .... Yogi Berra
