<div dir="ltr">Thomas Haigh's piece displays good academic research but is rife with typos.<div><br></div><div>That does not remove the substance of truth that Haigh offers. Ayyadurai's </div><div>claims are without merit.</div><div><br></div><div>v</div><div><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, May 21, 2019 at 12:11 PM John Levine <<a href="mailto:johnl@iecc.com">johnl@iecc.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">In article <<a href="mailto:20190521150017.B255C18C0A3@mercury.lcs.mit.edu" target="_blank">20190521150017.B255C18C0A3@mercury.lcs.mit.edu</a>> you write:<br>
>I wonder to what degree Ayyadurai's campaign to get credit was just part of<br>
>the runup to his Senate campaign? If so, his defeat there is true karma.<br>
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He started claiming he invented email around 2012 and the senate campaign was<br>
in 2017-2018, so I doubt that was the motivation.<br>
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Here is a well researched and quite long piece on the whole sorry<br>
story, published on the ACM SIGCIS web site by Thomas Haigh, an actual<br>
historian:<br>
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<a href="http://www.sigcis.org/ayyadurai" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://www.sigcis.org/ayyadurai</a><br>
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