Date: Mon, 11 Aug 1997 19:27:36 -0600 From: Peter Trei <trei@process.com> Organization: Electronic Forgery Foundation To: cypherpunks@toad.com Subject: Re: Guy Polis Reply-to: Peter Trei <trei@process.com>

Dr.Dimitri Vulis KOTM wrote:

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There's a crackpot by the name of Guy Polis (guy@panix.com, polis_guy@ jpmorgan.com) who posts a crackpot "cryptographic manifesto" and sounds like a bad troll intended to make the folks who promote the use of crypto look like, well, crackpots. Be warned.

Tim May wrote:

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Yeah, and like we're gun-nuts, too!

Rabid Wombat wrote:

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The mammalian jackass is also claiming that all crypto promoters are marsupials.

As long as he doesn't accuse us of of being mathematicians... Does anyone remember what 5 + 7 is equal to? (Send the answer by encrypted, private email. Secrecy is essential to my work.)

Peter Trei trei@process.com

Neat! I thought I was too boring a person to bother forging messages from. Of course, there's a subtext to the question I allegedly ask - 5 is a number whose signifcance is well known to devotees of Eris, and 7 shall not be spoken of. W .'. Peter Trei, MM, PM, RAM, 32' AASR(NJ) trei@process.com