Plus no ask to the list but said asked the list and if the point of the
First email asked for help, no reason the list was excluded from that even though I explicitly asked John for help verifying it. Then I asked open endedly on Twitter.
Also, you seem to be confusing this list with the community of Cryptome's visitors. There's overlap, sure, but they are not the same.
Plus, John deleted the early emails I made to the Cryptome list, which is more explicitly the mailing list that would be best identified as the community you're referring to.