Adam Back wrote:
Dimitri is an intelligent guy, and has a high level of crypto expertise (he has a PhD on a cryptography topic). It is my belief that his posts can only be understood in a "meta" sense -- he is engaged in a highly complex cryptographic experiment. People who read and respond to his individual posts are the unwitting subjects in his experiments. His posts and the responses to them are actually the data-set for a thorough cryptanalysis of mailing list threats.
Your post gives food for thought...much more so than the one in which I proposed my "No, he's just an asshole." theory. BTW, the results of my poll regarding this theory were: "Is Too" -- 4% "Is Not" -- 3% "Hey, leave me out of this--'they' may be watching!" -- 9% "Make Big $$Money$$ Licking Your Own Dick!!!" -- 74% "Unscribirbe" -- 10% Toto