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From: dave at horsfall.org (Dave Horsfall)
Date: Thu, 20 Feb 2020 16:05:00 +1100 (EST)
Subject: [COFF] [TUHS] Who is the inventor of email?
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[ Moved to COFF ]

On Wed, 19 Feb 2020, Richard Salz wrote:

> He's a loon.  Search for the techdirt.com articles.
> 
> > On Wed, Feb 19, 2020, 7:07 PM Ed Carp <erc at pobox.com> wrote:
> >       I've noticed that some guy named Dr. Shiva Ayyadurai is all over 
> >       Twitter, claiming that he is the inventor of email. He doesn't 
> >       look like he's nearly old enough. I thought it was Ray 
> >       Tomlinson. Looks like he's trying to create some press for his 
> >       Senate run.
> > 
> >       Anyone older that me here that can either confirm or deny?
> >       Thanks!

Back when I was posting "On this day" events, I had this for Ray 
Tomlinson for 23rd April:

     Ray Tomlinson, computer pioneer, was born on this day in 1941.  He is
     credited with inventing this weird thing called "email" on the
     ARPAnet, in particular the "@" sign to designate a remote host
     (although some jerk -- his name is not important -- is claiming that
     he was first).

-- Dave