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"-=jd=-" wrote:

On Sun 12 Sep 2004 10:48:05p, Hugh Sedditt wrote
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In article ,
"-=jd=-" wrote:

On Sat 11 Sep 2004 06:12:01p, "Gandalf Grey"
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Isle Of The Dead wrote:
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There is NO reliable evidence the documents are fake.


Dude, what part of "computer age"
do you NOT understand?



I USED TYPEWRITERS THAT COULD DO IT BACK IN THE EARLY SEVENTIES
DICKHEAD!

1. It's been established in the last 24 hours that typewriters of the
time could do what we've seen.
2. Isle of the Dead is a known newsgroup psychotic. Don't waste your
time.



It's only been established that some typewriters had the type-font.
What has not been established is if *any* typewriters of the time could
be used to reproduce what someone (according to NPR) has done:
- Type the content of the suspect document using MS Word.
- Print the MS-Word doc on a laser printer.
- Scan the MS-Word doc
- Scan a copy of the suspect document
- Superimpose the two over each other and marvel at how they line up.

Maybe it's not outside the realm of infinite possibilities that a
chiefly mechanical device in the early seventies has the same
typographical characteristics of a current software based
word-processing program to include type spacing, kerning,
justification, character registration, etc, etc, etc...

You have no clue how flexible Microsoft Word is, do you?
Bill Gates would HANG HIS HEAD IN SHAME and declare
a DAY OF ATONEMENT if you could not do that.

== The difference between information and understanding is thought. ==


But, I *do* know how flexible MS-Word is. The point you seem to miss is
that you can duplicate the (supposed) 30 year old typewriter produced
documents without "jonesing around" with *any* advanced features of MS-
Word; No MS-Word "wizardry" is required at all. If it were a spreadsheet
being compared to Excel, It would be as if all one would need to know how
to do is sum a column of numbers.

It doesn't work that way on my computer. There are differences in the
letter spacing. However, I agree the typefont is a close match.

== The difference between information and understanding is thought. ==