alt Hacker News> Exactly. You need to infer that, it isn't stated directly.
I don't care. The site is doing something unusual. It's evident, it's enough to take a second look and think about it.
> Same like you need to guess, that "Unable to connect" means...
Again, as a layman, I don't care. As a sysadmin, I don't worry, because I can look into in three seconds flat. Also, Unable to Connect comes with its reasons in parantheses all the time.
We should think in simple terms.
> I don't care. The site is doing something unusual. It's evident, it's enough to take a second look and think about it.
Is it enough to do an informed decision?
> Again, as a layman, I don't care.
You do care, whether you mistyped or the network is down. I agree that you probably don't care to distinguish between "network unreachable" and "no route to host" though.
> As a sysadmin
True, but that information was already there and was thrown away.