KYU-5, KG-84, KY-54 encryption devices

[Tim May]

At 12:06 PM -0600 2/28/01, Aimee Farr wrote:
>Tim May said:
>>  Search engines are the best way to answer such questions. A quick
>>  search with Google turns up numerous hits on these devices. (I
>>  suggest adding a narrowing word like "encryption" after the name of
>>  the device.)
>>
>>  One such hit gives a full description of one of these devices:
>>
>>  http://webhome.idirect.com/~jproc/crypto/kg84.html
>>
>
>Really? Well, damn. I'll have to try out that Google-thing sometime....

Yes, you've said similar things in the past.

And yet you ask very basic, easily-answered questions, questions 
best-answered by spending a minute or two entering words into a 
search engine of your choice. (In the age of the Web, a page which 
has photos, descriptions, etc. of such a device is worth a lot more 
than someone giving vaguely-remembered comments.)


>I can't figure out if you're irked by amateurish elicitation tactics, or if
>you're trying to give me lessons in how to do better.


We used to hear the expression "Look it up."

When a child asks what a word means, "look it up."

When someone asks where Borneo is located, "look it up."

When a list member asks what a KG-84 is, "look it up."

--Tim May
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