Here’s a quiz — Nora Ephron’s New York Times op-ed about the idiosyncrasies of email (it’s a new medium! I get a lot of spam! I have too many messages in my inbox!), which could been published in 1999, is:

(a) A column Ephron submitted to the Times that they held for a decade or so (remember, her movie “You’ve Got Mail” came out in 1998);
(b) A reflection of how far Ephron is from the cultural zeitgeist;
(c) A reflection of how far Times editors are from the cultural zeitgeist; or
(d) A reflection of how far Times editors think their readers are from the cultural zeitgeist.

Next week: Fran Drescher muses about how loudly people talk on cell phones.