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 Message 3623 
 Anton Shepelev to mark lewis 
 73! Morse telegraph ;) 
 05 Mar 21 16:36:34 
 
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)\/(ark Lewis to Anton Shepelev:

ML> note:  quote attribution MS manually corrected to ML be-
ML> low...

I beg your pardon, )\/(ark. I have been celebrating the  in-
ternational women's day with my colleagues, and I am unkdray
on Champaign and Aperol. I hereby congratulate all the women
in this echo, Ardith!

ML> yeah,  there  is  no prefix in morse... it is too old to
ML> have such concepts.

It may be interesring to  construct  an  optimal  Mosre-like
code in which no letter-code is the prefix of another.  Then
it would be a truly binary code, albeit harder to decode for
a human operator...

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