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From: Richard Heathfield <rjh@cpax.org.uk>
Newsgroups: sci.crypt
Subject: Re: SilkCode
Date: Mon, 3 Feb 2025 20:29:19 +0000
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On 03/02/2025 20:13, Stefan Claas wrote:
> Richard Heathfield wrote:
>> On 03/02/2025 19:45, Stefan Claas wrote:
>>> Richard Harnden wrote:
>>>> On 03/02/2025 14:03, Stefan Claas wrote:
>>>>> SC 124 205
>>>>>
>>>>> 依乏俺乙仆乎佬久依偿使上佑冲乙冲们兴仙兰令兔丛僻亭傀亲僻三伏五值
>>>>> 兴借乎侠乓亿乍作储佑七你决乡冀乓写价六他侄仁党介像京何共俄乏侍中
>>>>> [snip]
>>>>
>>>> It's like you've resurrected the Thai spam.
>>>>
>>>> Why?
>>>
>>> ?
>>>
>>> SilkCode is the new SCOS2 replacement, allowing also binary
>>> data to be encoded.
>>
>> If it allows binary data to be encoded, it singularly fails to be a
>> SCOS2 replacement. SCOS2 was designed only to encode only printable
>> ASCII for use in an ASCII-only medium such as Usenet; anything that
>> encodes anything else fails to meet SCOS2's design goals and therefore
>> fails to be a replacement.
>>
>> Call your program what you will and use it for whatever you will, but do
>> not claim for it properties that it palpably fails to hold.
> 
> Like it or not, it is called SilkCode

Call it what you will. It's a free Net.

> and I do see it as a modern
> replacement for SCOS2, in a text based medium, like Usenet. :-)

Then you see it incorrectly. It is, of course, your prerogative 
to be wrong.

> I know it pi*#$% you off, but I do not care, because pears taste
> better than bananas. :-)

Clearly not the case.

> Have a nice day! :-)

And you, sir. :-)

-- 
Richard Heathfield
Email: rjh at cpax dot org dot uk
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