tachyon, ++ for suggesting the use of Net::Telnet and Net::SSH, but...

...is it necessary to tell a person "you don't understand"?

Please keep in mind that many of us are not native english speakers, and sometimes is really difficult to explain in English things that one could easily say in Italian, German, Hungarian... whatever! (Actually, I am in a big mess trying to explain in English what I am thinking in Italian). Sometimes it would be better to say "I don't understand what you are asking" or, like pg, "I am not sure why you mentioned telnet here".

Don't get me wrong here: Ovid explained a simple "norm" before I did:

A personal attack is where someone takes issue with me. However, if someone takes issue with the quality of my work, that's not a personal attack. There's quite a distinction between criticizing a person and criticizing what that person produces.

Saying "You don't understand" doesn't criticize the code and, worse, one could think you criticize his ability to understand a concept; so there is a short way between "You don't understand" and "You are stupid"; and, of course, "You are stupid" would be personal attack.

Ciao!
--bronto

The very nature of Perl to be like natural language--inconsistant and full of dwim and special cases--makes it impossible to know it all without simply memorizing the documentation (which is not complete or totally correct anyway).
--John M. Dlugosz

In reply to "You don't understand" vs "I don't understand" by bronto
in thread writing to telnet? by Anonymous Monk

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