Thank you all for the education.  I feel properly flamed, but humored as
well.  Have a good weekend.

CF

-----Original Message-----
From: Dan Robinson [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: Friday, July 20, 2001 7:40 AM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: Held lists and their messages


It's a joke,.... as Fergal noted in his last line.  And good for a chuckle
on a Friday morning.  If you every try to look at EBCDIC in a ASCII viewer,
it sure does resemble encryption of some sort. As does ASCII in an EBCDIC
viewer.

Dan Robinson
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Stan Horwitz [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: Friday, July 20, 2001 8:15 AM
>
>
> On Fri, 20 Jul 2001, Fergal Suipeil wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > On Thu, 19 Jul 2001, Christopher Ferraro wrote:
> >
> > > Can you read these .jobh messages with notepad or any
> other application ?
> > >
> > > They seem to be encrypted someway.
> >
> > It's a form of weak proprietary encryption called EBCDIC. It was in
> > widespread use in the latter half of the last century, ..........
People who know what I'm
> > talking about will also know that I'm joking (mostly :-)
>
> Huh? EBCDIC is not an encryption scheme. Its simply the way IBM
> mainframes represent data internally. EBCDIC on IBM mainframes is
> analogous to ASCII on personal computers.
>