Arnold, where art thou? (was Re: "confuses X for Y")

Mark Mandel thnidu at GMAIL.COM
Mon Sep 3 02:09:25 UTC 2007


I cc'ed you just now on my question about "confuses X for Y", pasting "Arnold
M. Zwicky <zwicky at csli.stanford.edu>" from your post's From field into my To
field, and got an instant bounce:

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> A message that you sent could not be delivered to one or more of its
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>  zwicky at turing2.stanford.edu
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