Re: Two items, of varying relevance to the list

2000-10-16 Thread Tom Vogt
Ken Brown wrote: But we're on the edge of a continent and we've absorbed more foreign words than *you* :-) I wasn't under that impression, so far. - and later on there seemed to be a similar sharing of words between English Norse ( sometimes Dutch/Low German as well). So "ship",

Fwd: RE: take me off ur list thank you!

2000-10-16 Thread Sean Roach
You try to be civil, you get threatened. I guess I learned my lesson. Last one turned out to be reasonable. Good luck, Sean Roach By the way, is the shift Only used for emphasis these days? What about punctuation? Is there a corrollary to usage of punctuation, capitalization, and

Re: why should it be trusted?

2000-10-16 Thread Tim May
At 2:34 PM -0700 10/15/00, Nathan Saper wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, Oct 15, 2000 at 05:28:19PM -0400, Jordan Dimov wrote: I don't know much about crypto politics, but... isn't it utterly obvious that the mere fact that the NSA suggest a certain algorithm

Re: Re: why should it be trusted?

2000-10-16 Thread Nathan Saper
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, Oct 16, 2000 at 11:33:53PM -0400, Riad S. Wahby wrote: Nathan Saper [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Huh? Tarquin Fintimlinbin-Whinbimlim-Bus Stop F'Tang F'Tang Olé Biscuit-Barrel? Uh, what? This is a reference to a Monty Python