>>> i would rather earn it by designing things, not by cleaning up messes >>> made by kiddies needing to show off. > > For those who try their best, given your comment, what in the fsck is > one to do?
[ i prefer to speak in the first person, not tell you what you should do. ] i try to use as few tricks, knobs, and clever things as possible and still get my job done. i try to be extremely conscious of, and minimal, when what i am doing effects or is visible to my neighbors and/or the global net. i try to complicate the internals of my network as little as possible, after all, complexity == opex and i value my time, it is a non-renewable resource. i prefer to be seen as an old and lazy minimalist, not a clever person. clever was a pejorative where/when i was brought up. randy