From: Paul Lutus <nospam@...>
Date: 2006-11-11T10:35:05+09:00
Subject: Re: looking for some feedback about Certification

pat eyler wrote:

/ ... snipping all but the meat ...

> I'd like to collect the feedback in blog comments (easier to refer
> to them, etc.), but I realize that just bringing it up here is liable to
> cause a mailstrom ...

Wow! And I was there when it happened! A totally new word, and a rather nice
one. "Mailstrom." Too bad you can't patent words, you might become rich.

I am not going to ask whether this arose form a typo, or represents a
misspelling of "maelstrom", or some third possibility. It doesn't really
matter. I was present at a birth. :)

> I'll now slink away and hide in the corner for a bit.

Actually, you should gloat. You may not realize what you've done. Not
everyone gets to coin a new word.

(long pause) ... rats. I see from a Google search that it isn't original.
It's not common, but it's not original.

Oh well.

-- 
Paul Lutus
http://www.arachnoid.com