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1996-10-16 - Re: [NOISE] I never knew that Dimitri Vulis was a net.legend

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From: “Douglas B. Renner” <dougr@skypoint-gw.globelle.com>
To: “Mark O. Aldrich” <maldrich@grci.com>
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Reply To: <Pine.SCO.3.93.961016133809.11688G-100000@grctechs.va.grci.com>
UTC Datetime: 1996-10-16 21:39:30 UTC
Raw Date: Wed, 16 Oct 1996 14:39:30 -0700 (PDT)

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From: "Douglas B. Renner" <dougr@skypoint-gw.globelle.com>
Date: Wed, 16 Oct 1996 14:39:30 -0700 (PDT)
To: "Mark O. Aldrich" <maldrich@grci.com>
Subject: Re: [NOISE] I never knew that Dimitri Vulis was a net.legend
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On Wed, 16 Oct 1996, Mark O. Aldrich wrote:
> While the message blew by a little while ago (and I didn't save it),
> someone had posted a URL with information about Dimitri's sordid/alleged
> past on the Net.  At roughly the same time, I ran across (by accident) a
> URL that lists Dimitri as a "net.legend" and offers yet another
> perspective.  Apparently, Dimitri is far more well known that any of us
> (at least me) gave him credit for.  The notion that the idiom "dandruff
> covered" is indicative of anti-semitism is one passage that I found rather
> amusing.
> 
> Check it out for yourself at
> http://www.math.uiuc.edu/~tskirvin/home/legends/legends3.html
> 

The above is very good, but there's not nearly as much on Vulis in it. 
For anyone else who may have missed it, here is the original link again:

http://www.math.harvard.edu/~verbit/scs/cranks/from-Shlomo.html#vulis

This one absolutely_boggles_my_mind.  But check them both out.

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