Re: VMs: Can one "prove" a hoax? - and a request.

["Robert Antony Hicks" <rob_hicks_vms@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Gabriel wrote :

"I was not thinking on a true meaning of the vms, but more on the 
possibility of some text mangling to create something that Rudolf would buy. 
It could still be a hoax which can be read, but it is non-sensical (like 
Markov chain texts based on word transitions)."

But surely we cannot look for this until we can read the text?  If a 
methodical, reasonable way of changing VMS text into a consistent but 
nonsensical plaintext were found, would it prove a hoax?  I think it would 
be very easy to render VMS text as strings of meaningless words in almost 
any language.  In the same way, you could change the text of anything you 
wanted, say, for example, the bible, into anything you wanted (as long as 
meaninglessness was required).  It proves nothing.

Rob

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