From: jim bell <jimbell@pacifier.com>
Date: Thu, 25 Jan 1996 12:31:48 +0800
To: Simon Spero <perry@piermont.com>
Subject: Re: SS Obergruppenfuhrer Zimmermann (NOT!)
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At 04:21 PM 1/23/96 -0800, Simon Spero wrote:
>On Tue, 23 Jan 1996, Perry E. Metzger wrote:
>
>> Alan Horowitz writes:
>>>[...] 
>> Okay. I think I understand. You're a fruitcake. Easy enough.
>
>The official pastry of the 1996 Cypherpunks.
>
>One might note that Zimmerman isn't, er, a common name for yer typical 
>Neo-Nazi... This sort of accusation is sufficient grounds for libel in 
>the UK (such accusations have been found to be defamatory, and would 
>almost certainly be settled within a few days. 
>
>Of course Phil (Hallam Baker) has more experience with this sort of
>thing... 
>Simon

Maybe this is common knowledge, but the name "Zimmermann" and crypto had 
another relationship, in World War I.  If anybody knows more about this 
incident than my vague recollection of the famous "Zimmermann cipher" would 
you care to tell the story?