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2448: Re: [MUD-Dev] Usability and interface and who the hell is supposed to be playing, anyway? (Was: PK Again)

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From: clawrenc@cup.hp.com
Newsgroups: nu.kanga.list.mud-dev
Date: Thu, 25 Sep 97 14:01:53 -0700
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Organization: Kanga.Nu
In <E0xDotA-0004Hx-00@crucigera.fysh.org>, on 09/24/97 
   at 08:46 AM, Maddy <maddy@fysh.org> said:

>Imagine race X is at war with race Y.  It takes a lot of the fun out
>of things, if you can sneak up to race X's headquarters and have a
>good listen to what they're all planning for tomorrow.  The way I've
>got languages planned out is that each letter maps to another letter
>(although I'm probably going to use groups of letters).  If I say
>"Hello world" in human, it might appear to an elf as "Ifmmo xpsme".

FWIW this is known as a Ceasar Cipher.

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