Re: For Mr Douglas A. Gwyn, aka Matt Craig Matfys lurker Byron Bean Lassi Hippelainen

From: John E. Hadstate (nospam@null.nil)
Date: 03/31/03 

From: "John E. Hadstate" <nospam@null.nil>
Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2003 08:23:56 -0500

"David Wilson" <davidallenwilson@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:v8etc178m8pha4@corp.supernews.com...
> CONGRATULATIONS WILL YOU TELL ME HOW YOU
>
> REACHED THAT PHASE
>
> Yes, I will tell you how I reached this phase. There is a trail of
> breadcrumbs in this newsgroup and elsewhere for me to find.
>
> I started to notice a clear trend in this newsgroup:
>
> There are various groups of people, one of which made me very suspicious
> when I had tried to (naively) attack the Kryptos code:
>
> 1) This group announces itself as not having much knowledge (I am new to
> this...)
>
> 2) This group does make remarkable obserations (... BUT... look at
> such-and-such letter pattern I just happened to notice... oh yeah, I
tallied
> those numbers down to tweak your interest, too.)
>
> 3) This group is not unique to one type of code interest.
>
> 4) I had more or less stumbled into the back woods of Elonka's pages due
to
> stubborn hardass determination with Kryptos, and even *hinting* about
people
> being the same beforehand created more rise out of people than what I
> expected... so... I felt like I had a lead, even if it was small.
>
> 5) SO... who to choose? The people who say...
>
> "I'm a newbie... BUT..."
>
> "VIGINERE CIPHER IS THE ONLY WAY TO CRACK KRYPTOS!!!" (whatever the hell
> that still means)
>
> The English / Non English post with the wink/ wink was so classic... I
mean,
> c'mon...
>
> Did I forget anything?
>
> So that gave me THIS list (some of whom I was suspicious of all along):
>
> Douglas A. Gwyn Matt Craig Matfys lurker Byron Bean Lassi Hippelainen
>
> I threw all the letters together in a big square...
>
> And started yanking words out...
>
> There ya go...
>
> Now, why didn't I get offended by the Troll statement? B/c I took your
> punchy name, threw it in with the troll statement, mixed it up, and did
the
> same "tossed salad" approach, (which nobody has faith in, it seems).
>
> -Sincerely,
>
> David A. Wilson
>
>

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