Scott Brickner writes:
Then what do you care about the group's procedures? It doesn't "prevent you from participating" --- you *aren't* participating. You're attempting to solve the problem on your own.
This distinction is valid in the current series of academic exercises. However, if we were actually trying to break something important, anything that might accelerate the crack would be a form of participation. And as Nathan Loofbourrow has pointed out, the random method is much more secure against real-world retaliation. It's also the only method that will work for me; I use a shell account, and I never know in advance when I will get time on the computers at work (which aren't on the net at all). I _don't_ care about the procedures, as long as I can get the information I need to go my own way. Will French <wfrench@interport.net>