Re: Fact

From: Dirk Van de moortel (dirkvandemoortel_at_ThankS-NO-SperM.hotmail.com)
Date: 03/02/05


Date: Wed, 2 Mar 2005 19:17:14 +0100


"Tom Roberts" <tjroberts@lucent.com> wrote in message news:d04nj6$5dl@netnews.proxy.lucent.com...
> Paulps wrote:

[snip]

> > e) There are some resident trolls on this group that either though intent or
> > misunderstanding try to obscure these facts
>
> "Never attribute to malice what can be explained by incompetence." [attribution
> lost, possibly R.A.Heinlein] In this case, your inability to identify actual facts.

... aka Hanlon's Razor:
  http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?HanlonsRazor
:-)

Dirk Vdm



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