Path: csiph.com!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!reader01.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Tim Rentsch Newsgroups: comp.lang.c Subject: Re: Obfuscating first step of encryption Date: Sat, 04 Apr 2020 13:14:19 -0700 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 47 Message-ID: <86ftdjnh44.fsf@linuxsc.com> References: <14cbcecd-f94e-4cb3-bd1b-acb15d7283c1@googlegroups.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Injection-Info: reader02.eternal-september.org; posting-host="962b2addb8ebbeafdd69920a30d34173"; logging-data="5649"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1+qw+e4N1faNeHdKRt62XE/uMDKk3Ek2iQ=" User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.4 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:QU+1pcJgVbMKl0re1JXxFGVeSMc= sha1:z0eHpRSzbJ9yUQQjsSq/+04PBqU= Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.c:151017 Jorgen Grahn writes: > On Thu, 2020-04-02, James Kuyper wrote: > >> On Wednesday, April 1, 2020 at 4:20:27 PM UTC-4, Jorgen Grahn wrote: >> >>> On Wed, 2020-04-01, James Kuyper wrote: >>> >>>> On 3/31/20 2:51 PM, Frederick Gotham wrote: >>>> >>>>> I have triple-posted this to sci.crypt, comp.lang.c++, >>>>> comp.lang.c. (I would have taken more flack for cross-posting). >>> >>> ... >>> >>>> You've claimed that more people complain to you about cross-posting than >>>> about multi-posting, so I want to add myself to your statistics: >>>> cross-posting is far better (when the subject is on-topic in all of the >>>> groups) so that everyone interested can see responses posted in any of >>>> the newsgroups. >>> >>> This was discussed when he started doing it some time last year, and >>> one or two regulars wrote at length about why multi-posting was much >>> better. (This surprised me at the time.) Anyway, that's probably >>> where he got that from. >> >> According to Google Groups, he started posting with his current e-mail >> address sometime in November last year. On 2020-12-01, he said "I have >> found that people who are adverse to cross-posting greatly outnumber >> those who are adverse to multi-posting." That was before he'd had any >> significant conversation about that subject in this newsgroup using that >> e-mail address. > > This was where I asked him to stop multi-posting, and then some people > (at least Tim R.) disagreed. I feel a need to clarify here. My earlier remarks (ie, from last year) about cross-posting and multi-posting were made regarding only the particular context of comp.lang.c and comp.lang.c++. Also my position is not absolute. Based on past experience I think it is /generally/ true (for the particular case of {clc,clc++}) that multi-posting gives a better result than cross-posting, but that does not necessarily hold in all cases. I don't mean to reactivate the discussion; I just wanted to clarify what it was that I said. On the other topic, AFAIK my earlier comments played no part in the forming of Mr. Gotham's views on the subject.