Who is even still working on a solution for the VMS?

[Koen G]

I am convinced that as soon as someone is on the right track, we will notice right away. Allow me to indulge in Homeric simile.

Currently, the Voynich text is like a patient in a dark room. Pitch-black. We're looking in from the outside, through a sound-proof one-way mirror, so all communication between us and the patient is impossible. It's our job to prescribe the appropriate cure for the patient's unknown affliction.

Traditional solvers try to sing various types of songs in all possible languages. We know that singing songs has no effect because the patient cannot even see or hear us. But they keep trying anyway, their preference being Eurovision-style linguistic potpourris. Many think that trying some different dialect from three towns over will make all the difference, even though they're still just singing to themselves, only with slightly different vowel qualities.

This is where we're currently at. Believe me that we will notice when someone finds the light switch.