From: Anonymous <lucifer@dhp.com>
Date: Mon, 20 Jan 1997 08:11:59 -0800 (PST)
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Re: Take it to sci.math
Message-ID: <199701201611.IAA12389@toad.com>
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At 1:01 AM 1/20/1997, WinSock Remailer wrote:
>Will all those people who are talking about set theory and
>the countability of various number systems take their discussion
>to sci.math, please? 'Cuz

What a joke!  Of all the messages to whine about this guy picks the
math thread.  Somehow that wouldn't have been my first choice.

>1) All that stuff is irrelevant to crypto, its science or politics.

No, but it's interesting to many readers of this list and it builds
community.

>2) Not a single math comment made by anybody on any of those
>        threads is even remotely correct.
>3) You will recieve your proper chewing out on sci.math
>
>and
>
>4) This bullshit is extremely annoying to those of us who has some real
>        training in math, even more so than the regular bullshit on this list.

I don't get this at all.  You have particular knowledge in the field,
but instead of sharing the information with the rest of us, you find
our (apparently) pathetic attempts to gain understanding to be
"extremely annoying" and imply we need to be chewed out.

Commander Zero