Zeamays: I don't think we had any consensus except with regards to that one edit specifically proposed and made. No one agreed, I think, to stay with the status quo, and no one should now that the five blog posts have been removed.  I agree that HuffPo should offer more explanation, and perhaps they will. But what we do know is that the posts didn't meet editorial standards.  Which means they certainly don't meet ours, and we must therefore proceed as if those posts were never made in the first place. So think anew.  Find a reference to a dictionary, a style guide, a lexicographer that credits the EMAIL program with first use, with coining the name, and we can give Ayyadurai credit. According to  Haigh, the OED 3rd edition,