10 Sep
2022
10 Sep
'22
10:32 a.m.
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(a)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
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10 Sep
10 Sep
5:12 p.m.
New subject: [COFF] Re: Will someone update the 386BSD Wikipedia page for me?
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.
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Grant. . . .
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5:45 p.m.
New subject: [COFF] Re: Will someone update the 386BSD Wikipedia page for me?
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(a)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.
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Grant. . . .
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11:24 p.m.
New subject: Will someone update the 386BSD Wikipedia page for me?
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:
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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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. 
11 Sep
11 Sep
1:18 a.m.
New subject: Will someone update the 386BSD Wikipedia page for me?
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
2:48 a.m.
New subject: Will someone update the 386BSD Wikipedia page for me?
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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