[TUHS] Happy birthday, Morris Worm!
arnold at skeeve.com
arnold at skeeve.com
Fri Nov 3 21:20:47 AEST 2017
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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