[justin66]

> Sending a working person a 14 page letter about anything expecting them to read it is wild to me.

You really cannot understand why Donald Knuth would expect the editorial board of The Journal of Algorithms to read his letter?

[bigbillheck]

Editors not knowing who sent in a document is one of the pillars of the double-blind system.

[shagie]

https://www.combinatorics.org/ojs/index.php/eljc/article/vie...

> Herb Wilf has co-founded two major journals, Journal of Algorithms in 1980 with Donald Knuth ...

When the founder of the journal writes the editorial board (not the reviewers of papers), it is probably expected to be read.