RE: Transliteration--Re: Gallows G characters

[Nick Pelling <incoming@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi everyone,

> This means that those who lean toward
> cipher are laboring under an inefficient and
> misleading system of notation - for their specific
> purpose - and for those who've joined the fun
> within the last year or so, the knowledge of
> Currier and other transcription systems more
> descriptive than EVA is almost completely lost.

Anyone with sufficient skill to mount a deciphering assault via code should 
find it easy to add a suitable text-replacement preprocessing stage to 
remap EVA into their preferred final notation - and in the context of a 
devious cipher alphabet that (I believe) was designed to hide the final 
notation (and hence the underlying alphabet) from view, this is a good thing.

For example, I'm not comfortable about signing up to any final-notation 
scheme where EVA "ain" = EVA "aiin" = EVA "aiiin", because my (current) 
belief is that these are different numbers.

However, the real objection to EVA (and this would be just as true of other 
representations) is that we can't (presently) use it on-list to debate our 
ideas properly.

Rather than simply guess, can we take a poll to find out how many people 
on-list are *unable* to receive HTML mail? Also: can someone say how many 
list members there are in total?

Perhaps we should be looking at the imminent need to move the list as a 
provocation to spur us to find a more effective way of communicating. :-)

Cheers, ......Nick Pelling.....