[48463] in Cypherpunks
Re: An Enigma - Wrapped In a Circle
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Perry E. Metzger)
Mon Jan 29 09:05:15 1996
To: liberty@gate.net (Jim Ray)
Cc: cypherpunks@toad.com
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 29 Jan 1996 00:07:32 EST."
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Reply-To: perry@piermont.com
Date: Mon, 29 Jan 1996 09:03:26 -0500
From: "Perry E. Metzger" <perry@piermont.com>
Jim Ray writes:
> >What the hell is the cypherpunks relevance here, anyway? I mean, other
> >than trying to elicit a response from me, which you surely knew would
> >show up, was there any purpose to this? Why are crop circles important
> >to people worrying about cryptography and cryptography policy? What
> >possible linkage could there be?
>
> Why Perry! I see your point! Any phenomenon that elicits articles
> with titles like "Ciphers in the Crops" could have nothing at all
> to do with cryptography...
And I read it and it seemed like crap to me that had no relevance to
this mailing list. Neither would discussions of how UFOs are reading
our minds and thus a great threat to privacy.
> I repeat: Go hump a tree.
Thank you for your witty and sophisticated repartee.
Plonk.
.pm
