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From: Rich <rich@example.invalid>
Newsgroups: sci.crypt
Subject: Re: @ SCOS Message Format ?
Date: Mon, 24 Feb 2025 21:36:43 -0000 (UTC)
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Richard Heathfield <rjh@cpax.org.uk> wrote:
> On 24/02/2025 18:08, Rich wrote:
>> Richard Heathfield <rjh@cpax.org.uk> wrote:
>>>
>>> Given this input:
>>>
>>> [long input snipped]
>> 
>>> $md5sum charset.txt
>>> d5c6d06587dbac07fed831293ff0580d  charset.txt
>>> $ md5sum charset.scos2
>>> 87ea4967605a5ba4d69ff6cf0fb541f5  charset.scos2
>>>
>>> Anyone get anything different?
>> 
>> Mouse copy/paste from Tin running inside a Urxvt terminal results in
>> identical md5's to yours above:
>> 
>>    $ md5sum *
>>    d5c6d06587dbac07fed831293ff0580d  charset.txt
>>    87ea4967605a5ba4d69ff6cf0fb541f5  charset.scos2
> 
> Thanks for that. So it is beginning to look like a fair lot of 
> noise over not very much.

I'd say if one is using a newsreader that /does/ perform such 
"transformations" -- and one is unaware such is happening, that for 
those "ones" it is more than noise.  In fact, with Tin, if one 
surrounds words/strings with stars or forward slashes, Tin attempts to 
highlight those, and IIRC it hides the stars/slashes, so depending on 
just what character sequence is output, I might have had a different 
md5 from mouse copy/paste.

I.e. the word bold below should end up bold in Tin but without stars:

*bold*

And the word italics below should be in italics (if my terminal 'did' 
italics, that is):

/italics/

I suspect if you send back a reply with a 'starred' or 'slashed' word, 
I won't see the stars or the slashes.  But this is a lower likelyhood 
accidental pattern vs 2^2.