[46144] in Cypherpunks
Re: Is Dr Fred Cohen a Loon???
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dr. Dimitri Vulis)
Sat Dec 30 20:49:22 1995
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
From: dlv@bwalk.dm.com (Dr. Dimitri Vulis)
Date: Sat, 30 Dec 95 20:15:05 EST
In-Reply-To: <199512302211.QAA14605@dal1820.computek.net>
The following comment has zero crypto relevance and should not be construed
as an attack on and/or a defense of any particular net.personality:
"Ed Carp [khijol SysAdmin]" <erc@dal1820.computek.net> writes:
> OK, I'll do it. Fred, sometimes your pontifications make as little sense
> as you arrogantly signing "Dr. Fred Cohen" in your name field.
Without commenting on the quality of anyone's contributions to this mailing
list, let me remind you that Dr. Fred Cohen received his Ph.D. after writing a
very innovative thesis on computer viruses, a classic in his field. He has
every right to call himself "Dr." if he wants to.
In my experience, people who get so hysterical when a Ph.D. calls himself or
herself Dr. are invariably Ph.D. dropouts who wasted many years of their lives
trying and failing to attain a Ph.D. and are bitterly envious of those who have
succeeded.
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<a href="mailto:dlv@bwalk.dm.com">Dr. Dimitri Vulis</a>
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