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Re: "unbreakable code?" with cash prizes

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ben Laurie)
Mon Oct 11 17:55:41 1999

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Date: Mon, 11 Oct 1999 21:45:19 +0100
From: Ben Laurie <ben@algroup.co.uk>
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John Gilmore wrote:
> 
> [I'm just forwarding this with the expectation that someone might want to
>  try for the prize.  I don't know anything about the code.  -gnu]

No, no. You are forwarding it with the expectation that we'll all shout
"snake oil" loud enough to deafen you.

BTW, I offer $1,000 to anyone who can decrypt the hidden message in this
message.

Cheers,

Ben.

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who work and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in the
first group; there was less competition there."
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