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Re: VMs: OT: You can't keep Bletchley vets down!
"Out of your own sweet vale Alicia vanish vanity twixt Deity and Man, thou
Shepherdess the way".
http://smithpp0.tripod.com/psp/id16.html
Regards,
Dana Scott
----- Original Message -----
From: "Rene Zandbergen" <r_zandbergen@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <vms-list@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Saturday, May 15, 2004 2:06 AM
Subject: Re: VMs: OT: You can't keep Bletchley vets down!
> Jim wrote:
>
> > This looks to me like initials, as are used (for
> > example) in the
> > booklets you sometimes see that remind Masons of the
> > wording of
> > their rituals. I'd guess Latin -- perhaps even a
> > known tag.
> > Perhaps something like "Ora Ut Omnia Veritas, Amor,
> > Virtus Vincunt"[...]
>
> Jim has got the right idea. You can't keep
> Voynich MS Vets down either. Let's take up
> the unintended challenge. Allright, our record
> at solving ciphers is not quite up to the
> Bletchley standard, but our two Jims at least
> have chalked up 5 very famous ones that I know of,
> some of them hundreds of years older than code
> purple.
>
> Therefore I would propose that everybody sends
> to me (r_zandbergen@xxxxxxxxx) his or her own ideas
> what the abbreviation could stand for and I
> will summarise to the list before the end of
> May.
> Better not to clog the list with endless
> suggestions including quotes of all previous
> suggestions..... (so don't just "Reply" to this
> E-mail).
>
> Looking forward to the fruit of your imagination,
> which I know to be vast, from experience over
> the years :-)
>
> Summaries of earlier proposed solutions are
> of course also welcome.
>
> Rene
>
>
>
>
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