First, let’s acknowldge that the presence of a more serious or daunting emergency does not vitiate the existence of a lesser one – that is, a broken ankle may be fairly described as a “emergency,” while a car crash with fatalities is also an emergency, and a plane crash with 200 fatalities is yet a third emergency. Ome may not dismiss the ankle as failing the qualifications of “emergency,” merely because greater emergencies exist.
That said, a server crash or a denial of service attack that interrupts the business function of a message board is certainly an emergency with respect to the technical support staff assigned to the board’s upkeep. Emergency, in this sense, refers to a situation requiring immedaiate address by qualified personnel.
I understand D’Aconia’s impulse to puncture the sense of importance that some folks here have about this board, especially given its hostility to him. But, **D’Aconia/b]: “it’s a foolish man that builds his house upon the sand.” You cannot rest this line of attack on the claim that “emergency” is not a fair word to describe the event.
I know nobody likes it when new people insert themselves into the…errr…(the polite word is) conversation, but Jeez-oh-Pete! You don’t need an ‘enemy board’ to come in and sabotage you, you are doing a mighty fine job of that yourselves. If there is indeed an enemy board out there somewhere, and they are reading this thread, they have won.
Understand the procedure now? Just stop a few of their machines and radios
and telephones and lawn mowers. . . . Throw them into darkness for a few hours, and then just sit back and watch the pattern.
