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Whoops! Oh, Technorati! Can’t you even send an email?

Calling yourself Technorati is pretty brave, isn’t it? Every time you yourselves embark on anything vaguely technical, you’d better get it right, or you’ll look stupider than any ordinary mortal would.

So if you were going to send an email out to a list with thousands of bloggers on it, you wouldn’t make the reply-to address point to the list, would you? Otherwise anyone who replied to the email would have their reply – with their email address and other details in it – distributed to everyone else on the list. And that would be bad, and it would make you look foolish, too.

You wouldn’t make such an elementary error, would you, Technorati? Especially not in a mail portentously titled “Technorati’s 2008 State of the Blogosphere Survey”? Maybe somebody pretending to be you might make such a boob, but not you, O ever wise Technorati! Oh, the hubris!