"Timothy C. May" <tcmay@got.net> writes:

At 11:05 AM -0500 3/31/97, Ray Arachelian wrote:

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Is this for real or a troll???

On Mon, 31 Mar 1997, Anonymous wrote:

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"Leading researcher Ari Lenstra last night announced major progress had been made towards a solution to the factoring problem, a result obtained by Sergei Ripov, researcher at an obscure university in the former Soviet union, shows conclusively that there exists a solution to the problem that is of polynomial time complexity, although this solution has yet to be found this signals the beginning of the end for ...

It sure does resemble my "Russian Factoring Breakthrough" post of several years ago (April 1st, 1994, if I remember the year correctly).

I had the same format: a reporter in Moscow, a press release, a secret Russian research facility, and a breakthrough in factoring....

Actually, Timmy's was funnier. --- Dr.Dimitri Vulis KOTM Brighton Beach Boardwalk BBS, Forest Hills, N.Y.: +1-718-261-2013, 14.4Kbps