"robert casey" wrote


Actually there may be a ham radio angle in this. This implies
that, in a digital messaging system like packet or amtor
or such, more error correction should be applied to the
first and last letters of words, and less spent on the
letters in the middle.

If this was applied just to operator-to-operator chatter perhaps, but in a
"messaging system" it would be a poor way to increase throughput.

All that aside, digital messaging systems don't handle words, they handle
characters, and a space is just another character in the data stream.

73, de Hans, K0HB