[asterisk-dev] OT: Where Mailing List Replies Should Go

[Jay R. Ashworth]

On Mon, Oct 09, 2006 at 08:40:54AM -0400, J. Oquendo wrote:
> Jay R. Ashworth wrote:
> >You're familiar with randy bush's paper suggesting that BGP flap
> >dampening was a bad idea?  (I wasn't either, but I ran across it the
> >other day, and it seemed pertinent to mention it here:
> >  
> Did YOU actually read the document. If you did you would take the time 
> to notice on page 10 it addresses the issues with dampening to get it 
> working the way it was intended. So again to reiterate comments on my 
> previous post where I gave examples of what *MIGHT* be done or should be 
> *INVESTIGATED* as a *POSSIBLE* solution to *REMEDY* the issues were 
> ideas. They were meant to stimulate discussion to find a FIX for the 
> issue. They were not thrown out there as a "I broke this and you can't 
> fix it" message. If that were the case these emails would be going to 
> the f(ool)ull disclosure list. It's easy to yap away of how everything 
> is so wrong wrong wrong without offering anything fruitful other than 
> some obnoxious response. Its a lot more inviting to discuss the 
> situation as opposed to responding with waste.

I did not, no; that was reasonably clear from the phrasing I chose.  Or
so I thought.  It doesn't justify the tone of your response here,
though, IMHO.

I was *trying* to be helpful.  I won't make that mistake again.

Cheers,
-- jra
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