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Folklore is that Knuth hasn't used email since the 90s. You need to send dead trees to his secretary and hope she forwards it to him.

There is an email address to send errors and such. A secretary prints them and he marks up the hard copy (if necessary) which is returned with a reward check (when appropriate).

I have received one actual email from him, when I pointed out an error in the balances at the Bank of San Serriffe (https://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~knuth/boss.html).

The email looks like it was typed by him - the style is right and it is signed "Don" - but the From: address has someone else's name.

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