WTH is up with this network config?

[Kwan Lowe]

On Wed, Apr 28, 2010 at 7:15 PM, jack craig <jcraig at extraview.com> wrote:
> When I learned about ip address, the network & host portions of the IP and
> the netmask to
> differentiate the host & network numbers. I learned a class A addr used
> a mask of 10.255.255.255.

:D

That's got to be a typo... The mask is AND'ed against the IP to get the network.