🚀 go-pugleaf

On 2018-04-13, Questor <usenet@only.tnx> wrote:

> On Wed, 11 Apr 2018 15:25:58 +0100, Rob Morley <nos...@ntlworld.com> wrote:
>
>> On 11 Apr 2018 08:47:52 GMT
>> Jorgen Grahn <grahn...@snipabacken.se> wrote:
>> 
>>> /Are/ these actual requests for solutions manuals (whatever that is)?
>>
>> Yes.  They want to cheat on their college assignments.
>>
>>> They show up (it seems to me) mostly in inactive newsgroups, and have
>>> done so regularly for five years or more.
>>
>> There was probably a single post to each group offering to provide
>> these, that was picked up by Google or some other news-to-web site and
>> shows up in searches.
>> 
>>> You'd think that word would spread quickly that this is not a
>>> effective way to get the material in question.
>>
>> I suspect the fools who make these requests don't talk to anyone with
>> clue, and probably don't have any friends.
>> 
>>> Someone (in rec.games.roguelike.nethack I think) suggested they
>>> may be steganographic messages.
>> 
>> Because changing the least-significant-bit doesn't garble ASCII at
>> all.   ;-)
>
> Steganography easily can reside elsewhere too.  Many effective schemes suggest
> ascii's good eventually.

My extremely slow sentence assembly goes eventually.  Really effective
computer efforts increase verifiable execution details.

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