Re: VMs: A comment on Jacques Guy's table

[Bruce Grant <bgrant@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Nick Pelling wrote:

>  Surely hoaxers are (almost by definition) lazy people, trying to get 
> money for (next to) nothing - why bother to make the code closer to a 
> work of art? 


I have always kept open in my mind the possibility that the VMS is a 
hoax constructed for sale to someone, and therefore probably 
meaningless. But it occurred to me the other day that, if I were 
creating such a hoax, I _would_ want it to mean something, and I would 
want the cipher/code to be relatively simple (at least in places). Think 
what a great sales pitch it would be to "decode" part of the manuscript 
reveling some "great secret" - the potential buyer would be positively 
salivating to get his hands on the document so he could learn the rest 
of the secrets it contained.

Bruce


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