  The memory effect in electrodynamics, as discovered in 1981 by
Staruszkiewicz, and also analysed later, consists of adiabatic shift of the
position of a test particle. The proposed 'velocity kick' memory effect,
supposedly discovered recently, is in contradiction to these findings. We show
that the 'velocity kick' memory is an artefact resulting from an unjustified
interchange of limits. This example is a warning against drawing uncritical
conclusions for spacetime fields, from their asymptotic behavior.
