Yeah, describing this as "a computer error" seems pretty misleading. In this case the computer was just a transmission medium, not the source of the error. If

Yeah, describing this as "a computer error" seems pretty misleading. In this case the computer was just a transmission medium, not the source of the error. If they had written it with pen and paper or tapped the message over a telegraph, it would have had the same problem. If you wouldn't phrase it as "Wrong couple divorced after postal error" or "telegraph error" then it doesn't seem like it would make sense here. The computer is entirely irrelevant. Edit: Thinking through my own analogy about the telegraph more, I suppose that if it had happened over telegraph and had been phrased as "telegraph error" that could mean either the telegraph operator or the telegraph itself were to blame. So maybe the "computer operator" being to blame makes it a more reasonable description that I first thought. Still feels like a suboptimal description though since there is so much room for ambiguity. Though, a "postal" error still doesn't make much sense, so I suppose one would need to gather data about whether the "computer" is thought of more like the "telegraph" or the "post" to most people.