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Article #3428Re: Need information on data compression algorithms
From: lindsay
Date: Tue, 07 Apr 1987 14:21
Date: Tue, 07 Apr 1987 14:21
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In article <528@savax.UUCP> pitaro@savax.UUCP (Michael Pitaro) writes: >compresses is arbitrary as long as it's in the database. Or maybe >it's a hoax. What was the date on the original article? 4-1-87 maybe :-) As far as I remember it wasnt a hoax but a con and I dont think it was to do with the Last One people either. I recollect that someone was touring the country charging 500 pounds for a seminar on this technique. Several people paid him "just in case". The man I am thinking of subsequently vanished with a large sum of money..... Lindsay -- Lindsay F. Marshall, Computing Lab., U of Newcastle upon Tyne, Tyne & Wear, UK JANET: lindsay@uk.ac.newcastle.cheviot ARPA: lindsay%cheviot.newcastle@ucl-cs PHONE: +44-91-2329233 UUCP: <UK>!ukc!cheviot!lindsay "How can you be in two places at once when you're not anywhere at all?"
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Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!water!watnot!watmath!clyde!rutgers!seismo!mcvax!ukc!cheviot!lindsay From: lindsay@cheviot.UUCP Newsgroups: sci.crypt,comp.sys.ibm.pc,comp.sources.wanted Subject: Re: Need information on data compression algorithms Message-ID: <2055@cheviot.uk.ac.newcastle.cheviot> Date: Tue, 7-Apr-87 09:21:27 EST Article-I.D.: cheviot.2055 Posted: Tue Apr 7 09:21:27 1987 Date-Received: Sat, 11-Apr-87 06:02:58 EST References: <528@savax.UUCP> Reply-To: lindsay@cheviot (Lindsay F. Marshall) Organization: Computing Laboratory, U of Newcastle upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear, UK NE17RU Lines: 18