On Fri, 8 Mar 2002, Simon Lyall wrote:
Seriously though the Herald article this morning is "a pack of lies" ,
The Herald? Manufactuing an IT story from few sources, and without checking them? No! Surely not! NOT _THE HERALD_!</sarcasm> Please note, all readers, that the above is purely my own opinion, and should not be taken as an assertation of fact. I'm sure The Herald verifies and understand the fundamentals of everything it ever prints. Your mileage my vary. Offer void in Utah. Free Steak Knives.
it's a usual Foreman beatup which appears to use our MOTD page as the sole source of information.
Uh. So they based their story on your MOTD, and it's a pack of lies? ... This doesn't say much about the usefulness of your MOTD. Perhaps you'd like to rephrase this statement. :) [1] JSR [1] Note - I appreciate that when you're in the middle of a major outage, and Marketing/Nick Wood/The Userbase are screaming that you should put an MOTD up RIGHT NOW explaining what's broken, and you're still analysing the problem, that you end up making educated guesses and posting them to the MOTD.[2] I further appreciate that these guesses sometimes turn out later to be brimming over with total wrongness. Been there, done that. Got the t-shirt. [2] motd.jsr.its.all.broken: UNSCHEDULED OUTAGE: Customers may be experiencing intermittent international connectivity due to .. elves.. or something... uh ... in the, uh ... wires. We apologise for the inconvenience. -- John S Russell | Smile Chief Engineer - R&D | Nod Attica/Callplus NZ | Build it. - To unsubscribe from nznog, send email to majordomo(a)list.waikato.ac.nz where the body of your message reads: unsubscribe nznog