From: Paul Mc Auley (paul at domain peema.org)
Date: Sun 17 Jun 2001 - 02:30:58 IST
On Fri, 15 Jun 2001 18:38:29 +0100 "Ruairi Newman" <bofh at domain tech-mad.org> wrote:
(Attributions dammit! Kevin Lyda wrote:)
| > admins, some even inhabit this list, who read asr as a training manual
| > for how to be an admin. it isn't. it never was. no one there ever
| On this list? Who in particular? Most of the people on this list that
| I've had occasion to meet fall into two categories; those who seem to be
| very bloody good at what they do, and those who wouldn't be capable of being
| a "bofh" (yet). I will not name anybody in the latter category for fear of
| reprisal ;) Actually on reflection, if anybody had ALL of the skills on
| Simon Travaglia's BOFH, (s)he'd have to be about 60, and on the same salary
| scales as international soccer players (the only difference being that (s)he
| would actually be _earning_ the money).
As was commented somewhere in the neighbourhood of ASR,
"The BOFH stories are fiction"
But yes, those people I have come across both here and there have generally
struck me as being fairly reasonable.
| > the most charitable description i can use to describe asr-trained-admins
| > is "comical." most people i know use much less kind words.
| Either you've been larted by a "asr-trained-admin" recently, or you just
| hate these guys on general principles... I'd be interested to know which.
| :)
It's funny, but if I'm parsing it correctly, the sort of person he's
complaining about is the same kind as would be disdained by the group
(i.e. your average L33T warez d00d/Skript K1dee). I did blink for a second
when Paul Tobin sent a message to this list and I misread the name.
Most of the group seems to be taken up with assorted rambling threads which
cover a wide range of topics including hot food, politics, war stories,
computing archeology, popular culture and the occasional drifting flame war
about gun control/public transport/using cellphones while driving.
Paul
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