Techdirt is one of the most deep digging websites I read regularly, with insightful and different takes on privacy and legal issues surrounding the tech industry. It would be sad if a real asshole who THINKS he invented email (he actually built a communication program called "EMAIL" - had nothing to do with actually inventing what we all consider email).

This is a sad and pathetic attempt to somehow make himself known as the inventor - hopefully the EFF can protect techdirt against such a frivolous claim - and can make sure Shiva Ayyadurai is remembered for all of history as a self aggrandizing idiot who tried to claim he invented email - which is just as preposterous as Al Gore inventing the internet.