[WikiEN-l] Re: [plautus-Kn++NELU6BMVnaY5ffxtWuY7M/1xyH2gwGhcVh78ZPs at public.gmane.org

David Friedland david at nohat.net
Sun Feb 29 20:17:38 UTC 2004


Jimmy Wales wrote:
> I'm going to stop forwarding these soon, but some are just too
> funny.
> 
> ----- Forwarded message from Plautus Satire <plautus at shaw.ca> -----
> 
> From: Plautus Satire <plautus at shaw.ca>
> Date: Sat, 28 Feb 2004 23:01:26 +0000
> To: jwales at 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.
> 
> 
> ----- End forwarded message -----

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




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