{"id":16645,"date":"2017-02-19T14:16:10","date_gmt":"2017-02-19T20:16:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=16645"},"modified":"2017-02-19T14:17:21","modified_gmt":"2017-02-19T20:17:21","slug":"techdirt-lawyers-ask-judge-to-throw-out-suit-over-inventor-of-e-mail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=16645","title":{"rendered":"Techdirt lawyers ask judge to throw out suit over \u201cInventor of E-mail\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>n the end, this isn&#8217;t a debate about facts, say Masnick&#8217;s lawyers. Both Ayyadurai and Masnick acknowledge that the MAILBOX program was created at MIT in the 1960s and that Ray Tomlinson created the &#8220;@&#8221; symbol protocol in 1971. The two draw different conclusions, however. Ayyadurai calls the ARPANET creations &#8220;command-line protocols for transferring text messages&#8221; or &#8220;primitive electronic communication systems.&#8221; In Masnick&#8217;s view, Ayyadurai doesn&#8217;t dispute the historical facts, but instead &#8220;attacks Techdirt\u2019<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/tech-policy\/2017\/02\/techdirt-lawyers-ask-judge-to-throw-out-defamation-suit-over-inventor-of-e-mail\/\">Techdirt lawyers ask judge to throw out suit over \u201cInventor of E-mail\u201d | Ars Technica<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>n the end, this isn&#8217;t a debate about facts, say Masnick&#8217;s lawyers. Both Ayyadurai and Masnick acknowledge that the MAILBOX program was created at MIT in the 1960s and that Ray Tomlinson created the &#8220;@&#8221; symbol protocol in 1971. The &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=16645\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[1181,317,387,301],"class_list":["post-16645","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ip","tag-censorship","tag-email","tag-mit","tag-patent-trolls"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16645","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16645"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16645\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16646,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16645\/revisions\/16646"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}