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FromTheRafters

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Feb 25, 2012, 10:58:51 AM2/25/12
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http://www.cs.technion.ac.il/~gabr/papers/homograph_full.pdf

Virus Guy

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Feb 25, 2012, 2:40:17 PM2/25/12
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FromTheRafters wrote:

> http://www.cs.technion.ac.il/~gabr/papers/homograph_full.pdf

Why did you post that here - in a dead newsgroup?

Bullwinkle.

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Feb 25, 2012, 3:46:03 PM2/25/12
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Not too dead, you replied.


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FromTheRafters

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Feb 25, 2012, 8:40:46 PM2/25/12
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Many of my friends still monitor this group. Just because there's very
little noise doesn't mean there's no signal. :o)

Peter Foldes

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Feb 26, 2012, 12:59:03 AM2/26/12
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"FromTheRafters" <err...@nomail.afraid.org> wrote in message
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> Many of my friends still monitor this group. Just because there's very little
> noise doesn't mean there's no signal. :o)

As with other groups also. :-)

JS

FromTheRafters

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Feb 26, 2012, 7:29:48 AM2/26/12
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Yes! Many.


Virus Guy

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Feb 26, 2012, 9:51:00 AM2/26/12
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FromTheRafters wrote:

> > Why did you post that here - in a dead newsgroup?
>
> Many of my friends still monitor this group.

So create a mailing list and e-mail it them.

Interesting that Both you and Rustin use usenet as some sort of personal
communications channel.

> Just because there's very little noise doesn't mean there's
> no signal. :o)

With maybe one post a month to this group, you have a strange definition
of signal.

And with the Tony Lance "Big Bertha" posts (visible on some servers)
there is more of that "noise" than any actual on-topic posts here.

FromTheRafters

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Feb 26, 2012, 10:21:13 AM2/26/12
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Virus Guy wrote:
> FromTheRafters wrote:
>
>>> Why did you post that here - in a dead newsgroup?
>>
>> Many of my friends still monitor this group.
>
> So create a mailing list and e-mail it them.

No.

> Interesting that Both you and Rustin use usenet as some sort of personal
> communications channel.

Is he here too? <looks around>

>> Just because there's very little noise doesn't mean there's
>> no signal. :o)
>
> With maybe one post a month to this group, you have a strange definition
> of signal.

It's an orphaned group, if you don't like it - go elsewhere.

> And with the Tony Lance "Big Bertha" posts (visible on some servers)
> there is more of that "noise" than any actual on-topic posts here.

I kinda wondered what those were all about.

Octavian Silvermoon

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Mar 6, 2012, 5:46:57 PM3/6/12
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On 2/25/2012 7:58 AM, FromTheRafters wrote:
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> http://www.cs.technion.ac.il/~gabr/papers/homograph_full.pdf

This does post the problem of what to do with multi-lingual characters,
especially ones that look nearly identical (as is the care referenced
with the Russian 'c' and 'o').

--

~Octavian

FromTheRafters

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Mar 6, 2012, 7:20:24 PM3/6/12
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They have taken measures to contain this, in the form of confusable
detection. It's pretty good actually, but I expect holes to turn up.
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