[tech] flying (Wavelan router)

[Leighton Haynes]

On Thu, Jun 28, 2001 at 01:24:54AM +0800, Nick Bannon wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 27, 2001 at 09:39:16AM +0800, Leighton Haynes wrote:
> [...]
> 
> Erm, so what you're asking is "why did anything change at all"?
> Hmmm... You're right, OK, nobody touch any of the machines ever again.
> 
Imagine, if you will, a situation where everyone wants to build a little
hill of sand. You work night and day, and finally get an adequate hill of
sand. Happy with your efforts, you rest for the night. In the morning, you
come back to find that someone decided to knock down your hill of sand,
and start from scratch. Unfortunately, the new hill of sand isn't as large
as the old one. 

I'm not saying nobody touch the machines again. I'm saying that you 
shouldn't do things without a reason, that you should make every 
attempt to _not_ remove functionality from the UCC network, that you
should make people aware of what you're going to do, preferably before
doing it. Maybe you're just too detached from reality to realise this 
Nick, but continually breaking other peoples work results in them 
stopping doing stuff. I recall SOCKS stayed broken for a long time for this
exact reason. 

Leighton...
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