{"id":485,"date":"2002-12-21T10:36:24","date_gmt":"2002-12-21T14:36:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=485"},"modified":"2002-12-21T10:36:24","modified_gmt":"2002-12-21T14:36:24","slug":"fan-mail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=485","title":{"rendered":"fan mail"},"content":{"rendered":"

I had a piece <\/a>in yesterday’s Guardian<\/em> about Rowan Williams’ Dimbleby lecture<\/a>. While it was being edited, a voice down the line said “Can we use the email address at the bottom of your letter? Does it work?” And I said, yes, of course it bloody works. How do you think you got the copy?\n

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\nOnly when the paper was printed did I see they had used “accab@dial.pipex.com” which was a private account to which no one except the cron daemon at Cornerhost is ever meant sent mail. I must have been reading something there when I replied to them. So its publication works like the emergence of a lifeless volcanic island in the empty arctic sea. What spores will reach it first?

\n\nSo far, I have had