Re: Tim May's offensive racism (was: about RC4) (fwd)

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> Date: Sat, 22 Nov 1997 23:39:06 -0500
> From: Robert Hettinga <rah@shipwright.com>
> Subject: Re: Tim May's offensive racism (was: about RC4)

> Homework is for wimps. :-). I work from memory almost all of the time, and
> everything I say here can be classified as my opinion, and nothing else.
> Most of the things I state as fact are correct, when you root around on
> them a bit, like Choate did with the Great Awakening stuff.

It's a pity you weren't right though, the 50 year gap in your memory pretty
much blows your assertion as well as your reputation to hell.

Homework may be for wimps, but they're successful wimps.



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At 8:26 am -0500 on 11/23/97, Jim Choate wrote:

<ZOT!>
> It's a pity you weren't right though, the 50 year gap in your memory pretty
> much blows your assertion as well as your reputation to hell.
</Z>

Don't you just love the smell of ozone in the morning?

:-). What? Me? Reputation? I *thought* I had one around here somewhere...


Anyway, I'm not so sure about your above assertion. We can quibble about
*which* great awakening it was I thought was the first one, of course, but
you yourself posted the facts which bore out what I was saying to my own
satisfaction, and, I'd bet way past what most anyone else around here who
cares about the discussion, would say, as well.

Close only counts in horseshoes, hand grenades and cypherpunk rants?

> Homework may be for wimps, but they're successful wimps.

Yup. You're obvious evidence of that. Congratulations on all of your
accomplishments. Enjoy your smug self-satisfaction. Clearly you must have
earned it...

:-).


Cheers,
Bob Hettinga


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