all, "aga@dhp.com", that 'aga' guy, is NOT subscribed to cypherpunks. What has and is going on is that he was blindly Cc'ing cypherpunks on everything he wrote that had to do with this... I exchanged some mail with the guy, he didn't understand AT ALL that "cypherpunks@toad.com" was a mailing list address. He seemed to think that he had to be "subscribed" to the list in order for any traffic to goto it. When I pointed out to him that this was not the case, his attitude was that it was not his fault and that the list was "broken" etc. If you havn't figured it out, BELIVE ME, talking to this guy is a definative waste of packets. He's ranting with basicly no clue about how he's doing the ranting... And this stuff has now been cross-posted to about 6 newsgroups by him, in addtion to the 3 mailing lists he's been sending it to. I ended up asking him why he wasn't jsut cutting to the chase and posting "Make Money Fast" stuff instead. (he didn't seem to get it.) I'd suggest ignoring him & hoping he goes away. As it is it was a MAJOR mistake of mine to even attempt to interject sanity into the whole stupid thread on this... Why? Because there's better things to worry about in life. Like this H/P crypto announcment... Or anything crypto related for that matter. As it is the thread continues like some bad crack-addled version of the energizer bunny. Tim PS, I just realized my dog does better at staying focused on doing tricks that this list does on staying focused on crypto... That's a bit scary.