From: arnold@skeeve.com (arnold@skeeve.com)
Subject: [TUHS] Happy birthday, Morris Worm!
Date: Fri, 03 Nov 2017 05:20:47 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <201711031120.vA3BKl1D012763@freefriends.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20171103102329.A496B18C087@mercury.lcs.mit.edu>
jnc at mercury.lcs.mit.edu (Noel Chiappa) wrote:
> > From: Arnold Skeeve
^^^^^^ Skeeve is my domain. Robbins is my last name.
> > I suspect that he was also still young and fired up about things. :-)
> > ...
> > (In other words, he too probably deserves to be cut some slack.)
>
> Much as RTM was cut some slack?
I should have said "cut some slack now".
I don't disagree with the rest of what you've said.
> The thing is there's a key difference. RTM didn't _intend_ to melt down the
> network, whereas Gene presumbly - hopefully - thought about it for a while
> before he made his call to inflict severe punishment.
And had he been a bit older and wiser, he might have done things
differently.
Whatever. I dn't want to get into an argument, since I am singularly
unfamiliar with the details of the case. I merely point at that
Spafford is human too.
Thanks,
Arnold
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2017-11-03 10:23 Noel Chiappa
2017-11-03 11:20 ` arnold [this message]
2017-11-03 13:11 ` Arthur Krewat
2017-11-03 19:12 ` [TUHS] "Oregano" and Unix wizards Don Hopkins
2017-11-03 19:21 ` Ralph Corderoy
2017-11-03 20:02 ` William Pechter
2017-11-03 19:26 ` [TUHS] Happy birthday, Morris Worm! Toby Thain
2017-11-03 20:54 ` Arthur Krewat
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2019-11-01 20:36 Dave Horsfall
2019-11-01 21:12 ` Dan Cross
2019-11-01 21:49 ` A. P. Garcia
2019-11-02 6:35 ` William Corcoran
2019-11-02 6:44 ` William Corcoran
2019-11-02 7:31 ` A. P. Garcia
2017-11-16 23:24 Doug McIlroy
2017-11-16 23:35 ` Ralph Corderoy
2017-11-03 0:53 Doug McIlroy
2017-11-03 1:39 ` Ken Thompson
2017-11-03 9:25 ` arnold
2017-11-02 13:46 Norman Wilson
2017-11-02 14:32 ` Chet Ramey
2017-11-02 14:42 ` Will Senn
2017-11-02 15:00 ` Michael Kjörling
2017-11-02 15:26 ` Tim Bradshaw
2017-11-02 16:48 ` Don Hopkins
2017-11-02 16:50 ` Don Hopkins
2017-11-02 16:52 ` Don Hopkins
2017-11-02 16:54 ` Don Hopkins
2017-11-02 16:56 ` Don Hopkins
2017-11-02 16:57 ` Don Hopkins
2017-11-02 17:00 ` Don Hopkins
2017-11-02 17:57 ` Don Hopkins
2017-11-02 15:25 ` Dan Cross
2017-11-02 15:52 ` Will Senn
2017-11-02 18:42 ` Ken Thompson
2017-11-02 12:10 Noel Chiappa
2017-11-02 14:26 ` Dan Cross
2017-11-02 3:46 Doug McIlroy
2017-11-02 5:53 ` George Michaelson
2017-11-01 22:17 Dave Horsfall
2017-11-01 22:32 ` Lyndon Nerenberg
2017-11-02 16:43 ` Don Hopkins
2017-11-01 23:03 ` Charles H. Sauer
2017-11-01 23:15 ` Paul Winalski
2017-11-02 0:06 ` Ralph Corderoy
2017-11-02 0:09 ` Dan Cross
2017-11-02 1:08 ` Clem cole
2017-11-02 8:18 ` arnold
2017-11-02 17:56 ` Don Hopkins
2017-11-02 18:32 ` Lars Brinkhoff
2017-11-02 20:32 ` Don Hopkins
2017-11-02 21:59 ` Don Hopkins
2017-11-02 22:27 ` Ralph Corderoy
2017-11-04 1:15 ` Dave Horsfall
2017-11-15 21:36 ` Erik E. Fair
2017-11-15 21:50 ` Don Hopkins
2017-11-15 21:54 ` Ron Natalie
2017-11-16 1:05 ` Erik E. Fair
2017-11-16 1:22 ` Will Senn
2017-11-16 1:56 ` Erik E. Fair
2017-11-16 2:41 ` Ron Natalie
2017-11-16 3:00 ` Don Hopkins
2017-11-16 7:39 ` Steve Simon
2017-11-16 15:54 ` Clem Cole
2017-11-16 15:58 ` Jon Steinhart
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