<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On 11 Nov 2017, at 19:10, Dave Crocker <<a href="mailto:dhc2@dcrocker.net" class="">dhc2@dcrocker.net</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div class="">On 11/11/2017 9:51 AM, Łukasz Bromirski wrote:<br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><blockquote type="cite" class="">with some problematic content:<br class=""><br class=""> Who invented email? Why it matters.<br class=""><br class=""><a href="http://www.internet-history.info/media-library/mediaitem/2624-who-invented-email-why-it-matters.html" class="">http://www.internet-history.info/media-library/mediaitem/2624-who-invented-email-why-it-matters.html</a><br class=""></blockquote>This troll, at least for a moment, was stopped:<br class=""><a href="https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20170906/13431338159/case-dismissed-judge-throws-out-shiva-ayyadurais-defamation-lawsuit-against-techdirt.shtml" class="">https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20170906/13431338159/case-dismissed-judge-throws-out-shiva-ayyadurais-defamation-lawsuit-against-techdirt.shtml</a><br class=""></blockquote><br class="">Sorry, but no he wasn't. That particular action was stopped, but it was merely one in a long, continuing and extremely vigorous effort to claim the invention.<br class=""></div></div></blockquote><div><br class=""></div><div>“for a moment”.</div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class=""><div class="">The more serious problem here is the failure of folks doing the writing to spend even 5 minutes researching the validity of the claims.<br class=""></div></div></blockquote><div><br class=""></div><div>That’s true, but the “<a href="http://internet-history.info" class="">internet-history.info</a>” site may well be connected with this guy,</div><div>as he’s looking to support his idea with made-up sites, mails and “certificates”.</div><div>ArsTechnica and the techdirt links have more about it.</div><div><br class=""></div><div>— </div><div>Łukasz Bromirski</div></div></body></html>