Tim May, 2/1/96, 10:39:

* I believe that much of "Jewish culture" is, for historical reasons, closely related to German culture. It is understandable that so many Jews hate Germans and German culture, but also sad. (I don't mean the newer Israeli/Hebrew culture, but the Yiddish/German culture, which was so shaken by the Holocaust that, sadly in my opinion, it cannot acknowledte its essential Germanness.)

We have an old saying, Tim, "Nisht geshtoygen, nisht gefloygen," which more or less means "You're making no sense" - literally, "You're not standing, you're not flying." I'll bow to you on CP-related matters any day, but on the subject of Yiddish culture you're clearly pretty clueless. No great loss, I assure you. ObCrypto: Reputations are subject-specific, not global. Your reputation on the Holocaust is nill, about the same as my relatives' (the ones with the funny striped suits and tattoos on their forearms) reputations are on the subject of encryption. Stick to crypto, folks - this isn't Shoah-punks.