On Monday, February 20, 2023 04:05:19 AM to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > On Mon, Feb 20, 2023 at 02:42:59AM -0500, Jeffrey Walton wrote: > > On Mon, Feb 20, 2023 at 2:27 AM <to...@tuxteam.de> wrote: > [...] > > > > That's what Microsoft calls them. I prefer the RFC's IP4LL. > > > > And Wireshark (https://wiki.wireshark.org/APIPA.md) and Cisco > > (https://study-ccna.com/apipa-automatic-private-ip-addressing/). > > So let's not give them even more mindshare for free , shall we ;-)
Or let's promote communication and understanding by adtopting a possibly more widely known acronym? (If I need to, I might use APIPA (/ IP4LL.) Atm, I don't need to. ;-) -- rhk (sig revised 20221206) If you reply: snip, snip, and snip again; leave attributions; avoid HTML; avoid top posting; and keep it "on list". (Oxford comma (and semi-colon) included at no charge.) If you revise the topic, change the Subject: line. If you change the topic, start a new thread. Writing is often meant for others to read and understand (legal documents excepted?) -- make it easier for your reader by various means, including liberal use of whitespace (short paragraphs, separated by whitespace / blank lines) and minimal use of (obscure?) jargon, abbreviations, acronyms, and references. If someone has already responded to a question, decide whether any response you add will be helpful or not ... A picture is worth a thousand words. A video (or "audio"): not so much -- divide by 10 for each minute of video (or audio) or create a transcript and edit it to 10% of the original. A speaker who uses ahhs, ums, or such may have a real physical or mental disability, or may be showing disrespect for his listeners by not properly preparing in advance and thinking before speaking. (Remember Cicero who did not have enough time to write a short missive.) (That speaker might have been "trained" to do this by being interrupted often if he pauses.) A radio (or TV) station which broadcasts speakers with high pitched voices (or very low pitched / gravelly voices) (which older people might not be able to hear properly) disrespects its listeners. Likewise if it broadcasts extraneous or disturbing sounds (like gunfire or crying), or broadcasts speakers using their native language (with or without an overdubbed translation). A person who writes a sig this long probably has issues and disrespects (and offends) a large number of readers. ;-) '
