Of course, seven minutes before Chris tweeted this:
…but I didn’t see it until just now. Co-creators of ‘smail’?
How long until "email" just becomes "mail" and that other kind of mail needs a special prefix?
— Chris Grau (@sirhc) July 29, 2013
@sirhc mail and smail.
— Brad Cavanagh (@CanSpice) July 29, 2013
Of course, seven minutes before Chris tweeted this:
@Thunder_Chicken Seems like it should be shortened to "smail" or something.
— Chris Grau (@sirhc) July 29, 2013
…but I didn’t see it until just now. Co-creators of ‘smail’?
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