User talk:Echawkes

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"EMAIL"
There is a continuing flow of articles published pushing Shiva Ayyadurai's story on this. Every time that happens it's important that people can come to Wikipedia and get the real story plainly stated - i.e. what he did was impressive, but (as you say) is not significant from a technical standpoint; and not a contributor to modern email. If they don't see that, then they'll get irate and simply cut and paste whatever ill-informed stuff they've read in their local newspaper. Snori (talk) 03:25, 6 September 2016 (UTC)

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