On Wed, 16 Oct 1996, Mark O. Aldrich wrote:
While the message blew by a little while ago (and I didn't save it), someone had posted a URL with information about Dimitri's sordid/alleged past on the Net. At roughly the same time, I ran across (by accident) a URL that lists Dimitri as a "net.legend" and offers yet another perspective. Apparently, Dimitri is far more well known that any of us (at least me) gave him credit for. The notion that the idiom "dandruff covered" is indicative of anti-semitism is one passage that I found rather amusing.
Check it out for yourself at http://www.math.uiuc.edu/~tskirvin/home/legends/legends3.html
The above is very good, but there's not nearly as much on Vulis in it. For anyone else who may have missed it, here is the original link again: http://www.math.harvard.edu/~verbit/scs/cranks/from-Shlomo.html#vulis This one absolutely_boggles_my_mind. But check them both out.