Re: Meganet Challenge

Tom Weinstein (tomw@netscape.com)
Sat, 20 Jun 1998 23:30:16 -0700

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Robert Hettinga wrote:
>
> At 9:06 PM -0400 on 6/19/98, Tom Weinstein wrote:
>
>> How about an annual "Gold Snake Awards"? Make up little trophys, and
>> call a press conference.
>
> Hmmm. I agree with Perry. "Golden Snake" sounds like, well, "Golden
> Banana"... :-).

Good point. :-)

> We could just call it the "Cryptographic Snake Oil of the Year" award,
> and gild an old patent medicine bottle for the (perpetual) trophy, yes?
> Or, more crudely, said bottle sans gilt, with a pickled snake inside?
> (Reminds me of the W.C. Fields joke with a small snake in it, that
> does...)
>
> So, anyway, Tom, does this mean we can sign Netscape up for the publicity
> fund? :-). Do I hear an (almost, but not quite) matching offer from
> Microsoft? ;-).

I try to keep as far away from anything that smells of marketing as
possible. Actually, I was sort of hoping Bruce would do it. :-)

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