On 10 Dec 2005 at 18:53, Tony Sidaway f.crdfa@gmail.com wrote:
On 12/9/05, Arwel Parry arwel@cartref.demon.co.uk wrote:
reader-ckTX/lAc7te9FHfhHBbuYA@public.gmane.org"
Hmph! That's an interesting feature of the mailing list software. The actual email address is reader (at) guardian.co.uk
You mean someone actually wrote some asinine bit of code to turn email addresses into nonsense? Ridiculous.
When you read the list archives online, the e-mail addresses are intentionally screwed-up, but when you subscribe to it and read it in a normal mail program they're undamaged.
Every cloud has a silver lining. Thanks to this affair we seem to have acquired our first leader articles in national press, and (I'm rather proud of this) a definite article. Now we're The Wikipedia.
Interestingly, the comic book character Batman started out as The Batman when he first appeared in 1939, but with fame he apparently lost his definite article.