Word Fugitives
Atlantic, The, June, 2002 by Barbara Wallraff
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Dispute erupted in the Word Fugitives mailbag regarding an appropriate tenor for "a word for people who send e-mail messages and then follow them up saying, 'Did you get my e-mail message?'"—one of the word fugitives sought in February. "I take issue with the blatant attack on those of us who send follow-up e-mails," wrote Andrew Goldberg, of New York City.
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Cheryl Scott Ryan, of Austin, Texas, wrote, "Our recent office move has not been kind to our outgoing e-mail, so I feel a need to make sure all my e-mails make it to their intended recipients." Ryan, among many others, proposed the bias-free term re-mailers to describe people like her. Suzanne Lanoue, of Tuscaloosa, Alabama, advised, "They may be doing it for a good reason, such as that it is an important matter to them and you didn't answer them in good time." She continued, "How about a word ...
