On Mon, 10 May 2010, comex wrote: > On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 12:18 AM, Kerim Aydin <ke...@u.washington.edu> wrote: >> Hrm, I totally don't know here. I personally saw the message when it >> was first sent, didn't catch the typo at all, and assumed it worked, >> so there's evidence it was clear enough to someone, and the typo was >> trivial, and that's how it was intended by coppro. However, several >> people thought it was in error. This is like coin flip territory. > > Again, I thought it was an intentional error, as coppro, among others, > has been known in the past to perform ambiguous actions (see the > "copproh" incident), and 'i' is quite far from 'e' on a QWERTY > keyboard. But maybe that's because I'm American and very rarely see > the word 'shilling', so am more likely to notice it?
Actually, when you pointed out the typo (but before coppro replied), I wondered if it was a distraction for a scam, as in: "shill (n) one who acts as a decoy (as for a pitchman or gambler); (v) to act as a a shill." -G.
