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Letter: For the record

Published 30 August 2006

• Our story about email software that reminds you to send an attachment (29 July, p 25) failed to note that KMail, Spamnix and Pegasus Mail already have this facility.

• We said that the mammalian super-order Pegasoferae contains horses, cats and dogs, cows, whales and hedgehogs (24 June, p 23). In fact, cows and hedgehogs are not members of this super-order.

• Gravity has a negligible effect on the behaviour of ink drops at the micro-scale shown in our “Second sight” photograph (19 August, p 46). Surface tension and liquid viscosity are the only relevant forces.

Issue no. 2567 published 2 September 2006

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