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- From: ckaiser@sdcc13.ucsd.edu (Po-Ching Lives!)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.cbm
- Subject: Re: what is rot13 encoding?
- Date: 9 Feb 1996 22:49:18 GMT
- Organization: University of California, San Diego
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- In <4fbb93$aua@victoria.pe.net> kh6zv9@victoria.pe.net (bob masse) writes:
-
- >What the hell is this? When I press the percent key in my newreader
- >(tin) all the letters get jumbled...
-
- rot13 is shuffling all the letters in the document up 13. Doing it
- again puts them back to normal. This is done so that people don't
- have to read what they don't want to and gets posted anyway. Now,
- why are you asking this? Nothing here is *in* rot13.
-
- Cameron Kaiser
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