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.

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