From: Greg 'groggy' Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
To: Grant Taylor <gtaylor@tnetconsulting.net>
Cc: tuhs@tuhs.org
Subject: [TUHS] Re: Will someone update the 386BSD Wikipedia page for me?
Date: Sun, 11 Sep 2022 09:24:57 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20220910232457.GA15285@eureka.lemis.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ad1f507c-b3f8-cdd8-3f30-70b0ea10d397@spamtrap.tnetconsulting.net>
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On Saturday, 10 September 2022 at 11:12:01 -0600, The UNIX Heritage Society wrote:
> On 9/10/22 4:32 AM, David Arnold wrote:
>> I imagine it was simply a mistake.
>
> I naively assumed it was an off-by-one / fat-finger / typo intending to
> type seventeen.
>
> A slightly modified, nicer, form of the common quote: Never attribute
> to malice that which is adequately explained by mistake.
This is pretty much Hanlon's razor
(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanlon%27s_razor):
never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by
stupidity
Does anybody know if the Robert Hanlon to which the saying was
attributed was the Bob Hanlon that I knew at Tandem?
Greg
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2022-09-10 10:32 ` [TUHS] Re: [COFF] " David Arnold
2022-09-10 17:12 ` Grant Taylor via TUHS
2022-09-10 17:45 ` Kenneth Goodwin
2022-09-10 23:24 ` Greg 'groggy' Lehey [this message]
2022-09-11 1:18 ` [TUHS] " Erik E. Fair
2022-09-11 2:48 ` Deborah Scherrer
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