[ih] Defamation lawsuit brought by self-proclaimed email "inventor" settles

[Vint Cerf]

Thomas Haigh's piece displays good academic research but is rife with typos.

That does not remove the substance of truth that Haigh offers. Ayyadurai's
claims are without merit.

v


On Tue, May 21, 2019 at 12:11 PM John Levine <johnl at iecc.com> wrote:

> In article <20190521150017.B255C18C0A3 at mercury.lcs.mit.edu> you write:
> >I wonder to what degree Ayyadurai's campaign to get credit was just part
> of
> >the runup to his Senate campaign? If so, his defeat there is true karma.
>
> He started claiming he invented email around 2012 and the senate campaign
> was
> in 2017-2018, so I doubt that was the motivation.
>
> Here is a well researched and quite long piece on the whole sorry
> story, published on the ACM SIGCIS web site by Thomas Haigh, an actual
> historian:
>
> http://www.sigcis.org/ayyadurai
>
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