[chrisbennet]

work eth·ic, noun, the principle that hard work is intrinsically virtuous or worthy of reward.

(I didn't down vote you)

[rhaps0dy]

I see. That's not quite the definition I was using in my head. According to that, if the emails are very well thought-out and written, it _is_ still hard work...

I assumed that, for a work ethic, it had to be as useful as possible too.

Oh well, thanks for correcting my mistake.

[abiox]

> I assumed that, for a work ethic, it had to be as useful as possible too.

do you mean to suggest that chomsky replying to these sorts of emails isn't all that useful?