From: Rick Osborne <osborne@gateway.grumman.com>
Date: Tue, 22 Jul 1997 22:34:08 +0800
To: cypherpunks mailing list <cypherpunks@Algebra.COM>
Subject: This is not ROT13, it's German.
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Forwarded from 0xdeadbeef.

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Forwarded-by: Lloyd Wood <L.Wood@surrey.ac.uk>
Newsgroups: talk.bizarre,de.talk.bizarre

> [Moderator's note: The text here is not ROT13 encrypted. It is
> German.]

Well, thanks for making that clear. Which is the stronger encryption?
ROT13 or German? Is German allowed to be exported from the US?
I can get my newsreader to turn ROT13 into English. How do I get it to
turn German into English?

From: "Michael Briel" <UZSYDF@UNI-BONN.DE>
Newsgroups: alt.humor.best-of-usenet
Subject: [de.talk.bizarre] ZU VERKAUFEN
Message-ID: <ahbou=3D199707182029.QAA10092@jeter.acpub.duke.edu>

[Moderator's note: The text here is not ROT13 encrypted. It is German.]

Subject: ZU VERKAUFEN
From: Flavio Spirgi <Flavio.Spirgi@uni-konstanz.de>
Newsgroups: de.talk.bizarre

 VERKAUFE

 rasenm=E4her

 ausgezeichneter zustand, nur kleines leck an einem der 4
 hochleistungsreaktoren. der rasenm=E4her verf=FCgt =FCber vierzehn hochwer=
tige
 turbinen, die im notfall auch einen betrieb =FCber die wasserleitung
 zulassen. die schneidevorrichtung besteht aus vier nichtrostenden
 klingen aus hochwertigem spezialstahl mit holzeinlagen, die je 15 m lang
 sind. krankheitshalber abzugeben.

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