Re: [chat] Dumbest question ever.

[Sean Neakums <sneakums@xxxxxxxx>]

>>>>> "JW" == Jamie Wilkinson <jaq@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

    JW> This one time, at band camp, Sean Neakums wrote:
    >> Except that you all made the same mistake everyone else makes:
    >> it's e-mail, not ``email'', which is a type of enamelling.

    JW> That's not a mistake, that's deliberate.

And wilful ignorance is *so* redeeming.

    JW> See Donald Knuth's notes at the bottom of
    JW> http://sunburn.stanford.edu/~knuth/email.html

I read that note some years ago; Knuth was as wrong about it then as
he is now.  Past mistakes should be learned from and corrected, not
mindlessly propragated into the future.

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