Date: Thu, 29 Sep 1994 12:27:00 -0400

From: Martha Howard UN106005[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]WVNVAXA.WVNET.EDU

Subject: letter frequency



Didn't anyof you read Poe's "The Gold Bug?" We learned all about letter

frequency, by position as well as by occurrence, in my Navy communications

training for coding and cyphering (known as cooking and sewing) but every-

thing was so top secret that I can't vbegin to imagine how to get hold of

it now. They were so blasted security conscious that we walked around

Mt. Holyoke carrying a 4" thick copy of navy communication regs with a

LEADcover--so it would sink if the ship went down--in the middle of

Mass. yet!