On Sara's Dove Bar Habit

For those unfamiliar with it, the sci.math newsgroup hierarchy is a collection of thread-based bulletin boards dealing with all aspects of mathematics. Of that hierarchy, the group sci.math is devoted to the discipline in general. On any given day, topics posted there might be by high school or college students looking for help with homework, people suggesting solutions to classical conjectures, cranks disputing well-known mathematical results, teachers discussing methods and curricula, researchers looking for help, and others with mathematical problems of personal interest. One such was posted in 2007 (see [2]):