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May 2002, Week 5

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Ted Ashton <[log in to unmask]>
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Thus it was written in the epistle of John Clogg,
> Not only do I doubt the intent of the message that started this thread, but
> I am very curious about the long string of nonsense sentences at the end of
> the message, which we were all told to ignore.  It presumably would have
> been as easy to omit the babble as it was to tell us to ignore it.  I wonder
> if it is a coded message, and is the real reason for the message being sent.
> I have never seen postings from this individual before...

I strongly suspect that the "nonsense sentences" are the wandering thoughts of
the sender's pseudo-random number generator, included for the purpose of
foiling automated spam-checking routines.

Ted
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Ted Ashton ([log in to unmask]), Info Sys, Southern Adventist University
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The latest authors, like the most ancient, strove to subordinate the
phenomena of nature to the laws of mathematics.
                        -- Newton, Isaac (1642-1727)
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