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<div><span style="font-family: tahoma,arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><b>From</b>: "Daniel Hood" <dsmhood@gmail.com><br />
<b>Sent</b>: Friday, February 13, 2015 3:21 PM<br />
<b>To</b>: "Jacob Gardiner" <jacob@jacobgardiner.com><br />
<b>Cc</b>: "AUSNOG" <ausnog@lists.ausnog.net><br />
<b>Subject</b>: Re: [AusNOG] On Old Hands and Young Uns</span>
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<p dir="ltr">Seems like it.</p>
<p dir="ltr">What age counts as a young un?</p>
<div class="gmail_quote">On 13/02/2015 3:08 pm, "Jacob Gardiner" <<a href="mailto:jacob@jacobgardiner.com">jacob@jacobgardiner.com</a>> wrote:
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<div style="font-family:Helvetica,Arial;font-size:13px;color:rgba(0,0,0,1.0);margin:0px;line-height:auto">Busy Friday, Karl?</div>
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<p style="color:#000">On 13 February 2015 at 2:43:15 pm, Karl Auer (<a href="mailto:kauer@biplane.com.au" target="_blank">kauer@biplane.com.au</a>) wrote:</p>
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<div><span>There's nothing new under the sun, so no doubt this has been suggested<br />
before.<br />
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It seems to me that AusNOG regularly has problems with some "Young Un"<br />
not knowing "The Rules", with the inevitable result that a goodly<br />
proportion of the "Old Hands" get their knickers in a twist, the "young<br />
'uns" get frustrated, the quality of "genteel intercourse" drops with an<br />
audible thud, and far too many passive-aggressive "double quotes" get<br />
used.<br />
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When someone new bombs into the hitherto placid pool of AusNOG, the<br />
splash (and sometimes the scream) is usually pretty audible. It's<br />
quickly obvious to all that there's a new face around, a fresh face, one<br />
with its eyes on the prize, and not at all on the Ways of AusNOG.<br />
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My suggestion is this. If you are an Old Hand, and you find your nether<br />
regions being cramped in unpleasant ways, and upon inspection discover<br />
that you knickers are, in fact, twisted, why not contact the offending<br />
Young Un off-list and offer your services as a Mentor? You would be<br />
doing everyone a favour, including yourself. The nasty, noisy<br />
pitter-patter of little feet would stop, the Young Un concerned would<br />
get further, faster (and might avoid a few embarrassing and costly<br />
mistakes), and AusNOG could remain the pristine place of quiet worship<br />
it has always been. You as Mentor would have the satisfaction of helping<br />
a lot of people and probably learning a thing or two yourself.<br />
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In due course said Young Un, now trained in the Way of AusNOG, could<br />
take his or her place amongst the elite, accrete suitable amounts of<br />
crustiness and possibly even (obviously many, many, many years hence)<br />
mentor someone in turn, thus paying off their huge karmic debt.<br />
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Just a thought.<br />
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Regards, K.<br />
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PS: If I knew anything I'd mentor someone.<br />
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