Look at *differences* between words rather than at the words themselves?

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Radapox, you can always delete the parts of the quoted passage that are not relevant (with some indication that it's an excerpt, like ellipses or text to say it's deleted).

And welcome.

I especially like this kind of thinking (expressed in your first post) in relation to the VMS because the knee-jerk reaction of most of the "solvers" seems to be to assume it's a simple substitution cipher even though the letter positions and frequency are not consistent with natural language (as they stand).