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  Jorge_Stolfi > 4 hours ago

  (5 hours ago)proto57 Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.the vast majority of forged documents actually DO have meaning. Think the forged "Protocols of the Elders of Zion", the "Howard Hughes Will", the "Hitler Diaries", the "Oath of a Freeman", and a great many others.

  
  Yes, but even though their contents have meaning and may have been composed with care, those forgeries are "uninteresting" because they do not provide any useful information about the alleged subject or anything else.  The contents may reveal who forged them, when, and why, and sometimes that may be interesting.  But nowhere as interesting as the contents would be if the books were genuine...
  
  All the best, --stolfi

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  asteckley > 4 hours ago

  (4 hours ago)Jorge_Stolfi Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.

  (5 hours ago)proto57 Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.the vast majority of forged documents actually DO have meaning. Think the forged "Protocols of the Elders of Zion", the "Howard Hughes Will", the "Hitler Diaries", the "Oath of a Freeman", and a great many others.

  
  Yes, but even though their contents have meaning and may have been composed with care, those forgeries are "uninteresting" because they do not provide any useful information about the alleged subject or anything else.  The contents may reveal who forged them, when, and why, and sometimes that may be interesting.  But nowhere as interesting as the contents would be if the books were genuine...
  
  All the best, --stolfi

  
  Well, it might not be interesting to historians. But in this case, it would be very interesting to cryptologists since whatever technique was used would have successfully eluded everyone completely for over a hundred years.
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