From: "Robert A. Rosenberg" <hal9001@panix.com>
Date: Sun, 23 Jul 95 13:20:06 PDT
To: Samuel Kaplin <skaplin@mirage.skypoint.com>
Subject: Re: HOUDINI ON CRYPTO
Message-ID: <v02130500ac384a4bd799@hal9001.dialup.access.net>
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At 23:53 7/22/95, Samuel Kaplin wrote:
>On Sat, 22 Jul 1995, Sandy Sandfort wrote:
>
>> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>>                           SANDY SANDFORT
>>  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
>>
>> C'punks,
>>
>> Blanc wrote:
>>
>> >>            PRSRVYPRFCTMNVRKPTHSPRCPTSTN
>> > ....................................
>> >
>> > It looks to be something like this to me:
>> >
>> > PRESERVE YE PERFECT MEN ?VR? KEEP THIS PERCEPT (or PRECEPT) SATAN
>>
>> Close, very close.
>>
>>
>>  S a n d y
>>
>> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>
>Preserve ye perfect men ever keep the precepts ten
>
>(As in Commandments!)


In that case you gave an incorrect message to decode (by adding vowels)
since your expansion/decode had no S between the TH of "THe" and the PRCPTS
of "PReCePTS" <g>.