Re: Brute Force Attack on VMS

[Bruce Grant <bgrant@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Matthew Skala recently wrote::
>This criterion is the reason I'm not convinced by claims of
decipherments
>that require the manuscript to be written in some natural language with

>the vowels removed.  There the amount of information the decipherer
must
>add (by putting the vowels back in) is much too big a fraction of the
>information content of the final product.

To me it doesn't seem so strange to think that someone might leave the
vowels out of a text like this, since we often do it in daily life:
"Pls rmbr to gt a qrt of mlk".  However, this doesn't work for rarely
used words, new concepts and so on.

If the text is ordinary, it seems plausible. What I don't like is when
someone adds back the vowels and still gets text which is disjointed and
weird.

Bruce Grant