1997-08-12 - Re: Guy Polis

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From: “Peter Trei” <trei@process.com>
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
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UTC Datetime: 1997-08-12 13:26:40 UTC
Raw Date: Tue, 12 Aug 1997 21:26:40 +0800

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From: "Peter Trei" <trei@process.com>
Date: Tue, 12 Aug 1997 21:26:40 +0800
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Re: Guy Polis
Message-ID: <199708121311.GAA02418@toad.com>
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> Date:          Mon, 11 Aug 1997 19:27:36 -0600
> From:          Peter Trei <trei@process.com>
> Organization:  Electronic Forgery Foundation
> To:            cypherpunks@toad.com
> Subject:       Re: Guy Polis
> Reply-to:      Peter Trei <trei@process.com>

> Dr.Dimitri Vulis KOTM wrote:
> > There's a crackpot by the name of Guy Polis (guy@panix.com, polis_guy@
> > jpmorgan.com) who posts a crackpot "cryptographic manifesto" and sounds
> > like a bad troll intended to make the folks who promote the use of crypto
> > look like, well, crackpots. Be warned.
> 
> Tim May wrote:
> >  Yeah, and like we're gun-nuts, too!
> 
> Rabid Wombat wrote:
> >The mammalian jackass is also claiming that all crypto promoters 
> > are marsupials.
> 
>   As long as he doesn't accuse us of of being mathematicians...
> Does anyone remember what 5 + 7 is equal to? (Send the answer by
> encrypted, private email. Secrecy is essential to my work.)
> 
> Peter Trei
> trei@process.com

Neat! I thought I was too boring a person to bother forging messages
from.

Of course, there's a subtext to the question I allegedly ask - 5 is a 
number whose signifcance is well known to devotees of Eris, and 7 
shall not be spoken of.

W .'. Peter Trei, MM, PM, RAM, 32' AASR(NJ)

trei@process.com






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