Non-native English?

Gordon, Matthew J. GordonMJ at MISSOURI.EDU
Sat Jun 29 01:58:50 UTC 2002


Jim Landau said:

"Do NOT open the file.  "IE" stands for "Internet Explorer", and NOBODY would
send out patches for IE unsolicitated.  "

I was intrigued by "unsolicitated" where I would have 'unsolicited'. A quick google search suggests 'unsolicitate' is fairly common especially in this context of spamming.
Is this another specialized usage for a backformation like commentate (cf. comment)?
  



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