alright, i retract my statement. Thank you, Sandy. igor Sandy Sandfort wrote:

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C'punks,

On Sun, 19 Jan 1997 ichudov@algebra.com wrote:

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I would love to hear Sandy's statement as to whether AIDAS is Sandy Sandfort or not. If Sandy says no, I will believe him, because his reputation has a longer time span than AIDAS's.

In case Sandy says that AIDAS is not him, I will publicly retract my statement, which by the way I made to AIDAS privately (I have no idea why he posted it to the mailing list, although I do not really mind).

Normally, I would not comment one way or the other on this sort of thing. We have a whole alphabet soup of aliases out there and I don't intend to waste time with denials. Heck, it helps keep an air of mystery about the list. But Igor has been a fair and reasoned contributor to this list, so as a personal favor I will admit that I AM NOT AIDAS. Sorry, but that's the truth.

S a n d y

P.S. I'm not Igor either.

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- Igor.