Subj : The mystery of mark's empty lines.
To : Wilfred van Velzen
From : Henri Derksen
Date : Sat Apr 20 2019 09:16 pm
Hello Wilfred,
WvV> I don't know if there is a ftsc document that states this specifically.
I have seen such a clause somewhere too.
WvV> But it seems common sense to me, that the text part of a message
WvV> shouldn't be changed while it is intransit, because that is not how the
WvV> author of the message intended it to be and it could in a worse case
WvV> scenario change the meaning of the text.
Exactly.
WvV> What if a mailman opened letters and fixed spelling errors?
WvV> He would argue he was providing a service,
WvV> but I don't think the sender and recipient would agree. ;)
I have heard one occasion where that realy took place.
It was the pressman who had to press a manual, and the errors were placed in
the paragraph discussing the working of the spelling checker.
So that errors were mandatory necessarry for the user to show how to handle.
It indeed totally changed the function of this explicitly made errors,
and the correction of the pressman was absolutely not appreciated ;-(.
So he had to do the press of that software manual again with the orignal
errorfull text, and of course without extra charge.
The other phenomenon I know of was to make explicitly an error in sending morse
codes after 14 letters transmitted, so the receiver could detect the sender was
arrested by the other militair party, i.e. during WO II.
So sometimes the right place of errors can be very important.
It shows unexpected information too ;-).
Henri.
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