Jimmy Wales wrote:

I'm going to stop forwarding these soon, but some are just too funny.

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From: Plautus Satire plautus@shaw.ca Date: Sat, 28 Feb 2004 23:01:26 +0000 To: jwales@bomis.com Subject: signal-happy clown

Ed Poor a signal-happy clown, my friend. He says the vote is nine but he means the index is 201.

I understand without the cheatsheet I can not break your one-time pad cypher, unless I search through the archives of the email list and the page histories of wikipedia.

I can make reasonable inferences from my own case, which, combined with the cases of others, might provide an accurate approximation of the cheatsheet.

Are you convinced yet?

Better get a new back channel now, the loudmouth Ed Poor blew this one.

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I'm not trained in psychoanalysis in any way whatsoever, but this guy is either a paranoid psychotic or doing a very good impression of one. I've probably been watching too many ER reruns because my first thought was to ask if you had "paged psych".

- David