From: robertaw@drizzle.com   
      
   In article ,   
    ram@zedat.fu-berlin.de (Stefan Ram) wrote:   
      
   >   In a short story, people are looking for signs of intelligent life.   
   >   They've picked up a few signals, but none of it makes sense to   
   >   the computers. Turns out, the message isn't hidden in the signals   
   >   themselves but in how long the pauses between them are.   
   >   
   >   Please let me know if you know the title of a story like that!   
      
   As I posted elsewhere, this could be H. Beam Piper's "Naudsonce", see   
   (https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?55482).   
      
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