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[Matthew Lambie]

On Mon, 2005-07-04 at 12:17 +0800, Craig Ringer wrote:

> My point is that they may well simply not realize that not everybody is 
> intimately familiar with what that means. However, if you're giving 
> someone instructions to type something into a subnet mask field, I'd 
> consider it appropriate to give them the value in the required format, 
> not expect them to calculate it from their network address and the 
> bitmask length. That's just silly for anything but the basic /8, /16, 
> and /24 networks (class A/B/C) and even then, you may as well say 
> 255.0.0.0 (for class A) or whatever. Now, if you ask what to put in the 
> subnet mask field and they say "duh, it's a /28, think about it" then 
> yep, right with you on the arrogant git annoyance.

I should have been a little clearer - I've seen it used as a way to show
that they "know more" or even to obfuscate what they were trying to say,
because the person they were talking to clearly didn't know what the /xx
notation meant.
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