- To: Progress Zone <slug-chat@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Subject: Re: [chat] Dumbest question ever.
- From: Sean Neakums <sneakums@xxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri Aug 10 21:45:02 2001
- User-agent: Gnus/5.090004 (Oort Gnus v0.04) Emacs/20.7
>>>>> "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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