* [TUHS] Re: [COFF] Re: Will someone update the 386BSD Wikipedia page for me?
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@ 2022-09-10 10:32 ` David Arnold
2022-09-10 17:12 ` Grant Taylor via TUHS
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From: David Arnold @ 2022-09-10 10:32 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Grant Taylor; +Cc: Pete Wright via TUHS
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The error was introduced on 13 September 2005, by an anonymous user from an IP address allocated to Web Perception, a Californian ISP, and (currently) geolocated to Sonoma. The change comment was:
Changes - 386BSD factual errors corrected, potentially libelous statements removed, links updated, refocus on 386BSD history, authority-386BSD authors, published works, DMR refs
The same IP address was used for a series of edits over 2005-2006, to topics including 386BSD, Lynne Jolitz, William Jolitz, and Radiocarbon Dating.
I imagine it was simply a mistake.
d
> On 10 Sep 2022, at 12:26, Grant Taylor via COFF <coff@tuhs.org> wrote:
>
> On 9/9/22 8:05 PM, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote:
>> Done.
>
> Thank you!
>
>> Do you have an idea about how this error crept in?
>
> No, I do not.
>
> I came to this article after reading about the DDJ DVD archive on the geeks mailing list. I was sensitive to the emails about DDJ because I've been looking to acquire the issues (or at least articles) with the Porting Unix to the 386 articles in them.
>
> Now I have them! :-D
>
>
>
> --
> Grant. . . .
> unix || die
>
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* [TUHS] Re: [COFF] Re: Will someone update the 386BSD Wikipedia page for me?
2022-09-10 10:32 ` [TUHS] Re: [COFF] Re: Will someone update the 386BSD Wikipedia page for me? David Arnold
@ 2022-09-10 17:12 ` Grant Taylor via TUHS
2022-09-10 17:45 ` Kenneth Goodwin
2022-09-10 23:24 ` [TUHS] " Greg 'groggy' Lehey
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From: Grant Taylor via TUHS @ 2022-09-10 17:12 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: tuhs
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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.
--
Grant. . . .
unix || die
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* [TUHS] Re: [COFF] Re: Will someone update the 386BSD Wikipedia page for me?
2022-09-10 17:12 ` Grant Taylor via TUHS
@ 2022-09-10 17:45 ` Kenneth Goodwin
2022-09-10 23:24 ` [TUHS] " Greg 'groggy' Lehey
1 sibling, 0 replies; 6+ messages in thread
From: Kenneth Goodwin @ 2022-09-10 17:45 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Grant Taylor; +Cc: The Eunuchs Hysterical Society
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Not sure where Bill Jolitz lived during that time period. But considering
the scope of the changes, I would suspect that perhaps he might have been
the author of such changes.
On Sat, Sep 10, 2022, 1:15 PM Grant Taylor via TUHS <tuhs@tuhs.org> 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.
>
>
>
> --
> Grant. . . .
> unix || die
>
>
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* [TUHS] Re: Will someone update the 386BSD Wikipedia page for me?
2022-09-10 17:12 ` Grant Taylor via TUHS
2022-09-10 17:45 ` Kenneth Goodwin
@ 2022-09-10 23:24 ` Greg 'groggy' Lehey
2022-09-11 1:18 ` Erik E. Fair
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From: Greg 'groggy' Lehey @ 2022-09-10 23:24 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Grant Taylor; +Cc: tuhs
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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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* [TUHS] Re: Will someone update the 386BSD Wikipedia page for me?
2022-09-10 23:24 ` [TUHS] " Greg 'groggy' Lehey
@ 2022-09-11 1:18 ` Erik E. Fair
2022-09-11 2:48 ` Deborah Scherrer
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From: Erik E. Fair @ 2022-09-11 1:18 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Greg 'groggy' Lehey; +Cc: Grant Taylor, tuhs
I have a counter to Hanlon's Razor:
"The effects of any sufficiently advanced stupidity are *indistinguishable* from malice."
"Is he evil or just stupid?"
"Who cares? We still have a mess to deal with."
Erik
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* [TUHS] Re: Will someone update the 386BSD Wikipedia page for me?
2022-09-11 1:18 ` Erik E. Fair
@ 2022-09-11 2:48 ` Deborah Scherrer
0 siblings, 0 replies; 6+ messages in thread
From: Deborah Scherrer @ 2022-09-11 2:48 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: tuhs
Ah, good one...
Deborah
On 9/10/22 6:18 PM, Erik E. Fair wrote:
> I have a counter to Hanlon's Razor:
>
> "The effects of any sufficiently advanced stupidity are
> *indistinguishable* from malice."
>
> "Is he evil or just stupid?"
>
> "Who cares? We still have a mess to deal with."
>
> Erik
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