atw: Re: SEC: UNCLASS Fictitious names in screenshots

Heh - a better way is to group all letters with similar usage and transpose
in those sets

AEIOU
EIOUA

YHL
LYH

And so on.

This is the method commonly built into RPG games as it produces much more
natural looking, cyphered text to simulate listening to a foreign language. 

-----Original Message-----
From: austechwriter-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:austechwriter-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Michael Edward
Granat
Sent: Friday, 12 August 2005 9:30 AM
To: austechwriter@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Cc: megranat@xxxxxxxx
Subject: atw: Re: SEC: UNCLASS Fictitious names in screenshots

Well Howard (S)

Some anagrams of real user names (or of Austechwriter list member names)
maybe?

Or create a little, old fashioned military code book style cipher, where you
write out the alphabet above an inverse, transposed or jumbled version of
same and substitute the real characters for the transposed ones.

For example, using:

ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ
ZYXWVUTSRQPONMLKJIHGFEDCBA

your name would be the very Slavic sounding Slidziw Hroxlxp.

Regards,

Nrxszvo Tizmzg.
(Actually, my name works better for me backwards as Leachim Tanarg.  How
does Kcoclis Drawoh sound to you?)

----- Message from Howard.Silcock@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx ---------
    Date: Thu, 11 Aug 2005 16:08:49 +1000
    From: "Silcock, Howard DR" <Howard.Silcock@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Reply-To: austechwriter@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: atw: SEC: UNCLASS  Fictitious names in screenshots
      To: austechwriter@xxxxxxxxxxxxx


> Has anyone come up against the problem of finding suitable fictitious 
> names to display as user names in screenshots? In the earlier drafts 
> of the manual I'm writing I've been gleefully using the names of the 
> bigshots that actually appear in the database (I'm not going to name 
> them). It's somehow comforting when I see a confirmation dialog box 
> saying "Are you sure you want to delete Howard.Silcock?", except that 
> it's not Howard.Silcock but a network user with a much bigger 
> reputation (and a bigger head to match - if you can imagine) whose 
> account is supposedly about to be closed by a network management tool.
>
> But now a real live version is imminent and I'll have to replace these 
> names with unexceptionable ones. How should I choose them? The thought 
> of using Test User 1, Test User 2, etc is too depressing to contemplate.
> I can't even use any real names or someone may panic about lawsuits. 
> And I suppose I should carefully select names so as not to favour any 
> particular racial, cultural or gender background. Aagh!
>
> Any suggestions?
>
> Howard
>
> ----------------------------------
>        Howard L. Silcock
>         Technical Writer
>   Common Services SOE Program
> Network Infrastructure Development
>      Department of Defence
>    Unit 3-4, 25 Napier Close
>        Deakin ACT 2600
>        (02) 626 58828
> ----------------------------------
>
----- End message from Howard.Silcock@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx -----



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