Re: [TSCM-L] coding

From: <d..._at_geer.org>
Date: Fri, 24 Feb 2006 17:56:49 -0500

Ha! Google altered my text by removing the tag line
from the body text of my message...

Here's my message again with first of the line cruft
to try to escape that "service"; t'will be ugly and
especially so for those with automatic line breaks,
but here goes and, in any case, you can imagine that
the tagline, which I am sure will appear, was cut
and pasted into the message body and thus try to play
along...


>|
>|
>| For my curiousity, in this tag-line we all get all
>| the time, viz.,
>|
>|
>| is there a google.com driven coding of some sort?
>| I speak, naturally, of this part:
>|
>|
>| which might encode a number in run-length of dashes,
>| say, in which case it would be:
>|
>| 2 2 9 2 4 13 7 2 4
>| 1 11 4 4 4 6 4 6 2 3
>|
>| I am curious, but lazy. TSCM is the only Google list
>| I'm on, hence I've no comparand. Of course, I don't
>| run a google.com list either so perhaps JMA is just
>| funning me. The 1st is 10 digits, but parsed as a phone
>| number (229.241.3724) it is not in Google's megacache.
>| Similarly for the 2nd (1.114.446.4623). Likewise for
>| either re-coded as octal (13->D, 11->B). It doesn't
>| appear to have anything but run length to work with
>| though if it's unique then it is would be an efficient
>| search key for those who are reading everyone's e-mail
>| (which I have to admit would be amusing).
>|
>|
>| --dan
>|

--dan
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