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From: dee@cca.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.followup
Subject: Re: !FUNKY!STUFF!
Message-ID: <5040@cca.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 29-Jun-83 10:28:54 EDT
Article-I.D.: cca.5040
Posted: Wed Jun 29 10:28:54 1983
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I can't see how merely processing the input helps at all.  Do you mean
that if you come across a triple of capital letters that has not occured
earlier in the message, you interpret that as the meta-token (perhaps
also requiring it be the first in some ordering of thus far unused
triples)?  That obviously does not work for the message

	"The addres of the Boston office of the AAA (American Automobile
Association) is ..."AAB

Where AAB was meant to be an input dependent meta-token terminating
the message.

Of course the problem is trivially solvable with more complex schemes
such as two strings, one of which is an end-of-message and the other
of which quotes the immediately following character regardless of what
that character is.
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