I've written several posts about unpredictable typing mistakes that are not the result of auto-correct or sloppiness, but are produced through phonological confusion in my own neuro-muscular hardware and software (see "Selected readings"). This morning I experienced another funny occurrence of such a mistake.
I had lost over 7,000 of the recent e-mails in my inbox, so I wrote to the excellent IT guys in Williams Hall:
Crisis
I'm making good progress moving things from inbox to archives, but I just had a disaster. Everything in my inbox between these two e-mails is missing:
Margaret ******** today (6/18/21) 11:53 a.m.
MISSING
Jing *** (11/18/20) 11:06 p.m.
There are thousands of important e-mails to me with all sorts of information, attachments, and so forth that I need to take care of, some of them very soon.
Can you somehow restore the missing items?
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