I had honestly hoped that yesterday‘s story about the Huffington Post finally retracting its series of totally bogus articles (mostly written by Shiva Ayyadurai or his colleagues and friends, but a few by its actual „journalists“), pretending to argue that V.A. Shiva Ayyadurai had „invented email,“ would be the end of this story. Ayyadurai has built up quite a reputation around this false claim, even though it‘s been debunked over and over and over again.

Ayyadurai keeps coming back, often moving the goalposts and changing his definitions, but still ultimately flat out lying in pretending to have „invented“ email. To be clear, he did no such thing. Email was in wide use at the time he supposedly wrote his software.