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To: OSHA
Finally got to the site. It is jawdropping that the author never addressed what he himself demonstrates, how one can so easily get MS Word to make something that lays right over top of the CBS memos. Everything: tab stops, auto-centered headers, every automatically-wrapped word of every line of text.

MS Word remains the best known way to reproduce the CBS memos with any fidelity. In fact, it would seem that the best any typewriter which will ever be dredged up in the future could ever hope to get is a tie, since MS Word does it perfectly now.

In light of the preceding, his claim that it is "unlikely that a digital typeface could have produced any of these memos" is a hoot. He has no better way to replicate the memos than MS Word. I for one don't for a second believe that he doesn't know this.

He may have made the case that the font is a species of the "Typewriter" genus rather than "Times New Roman." I flew pretty fast over that part because he was making a tedious point of barking up a wrong tree. That in fact is his whole game, pretending not to know the bar he would have to clear before he would make a convincing demonstration. He has done what he falsely accuses others of doing, expounding upon irrelevancies and announcing, "Tah-Dah!"

76 posted on 09/26/2004 2:48:13 PM PDT by VadeRetro
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To: VadeRetro

Figure 6 where he compare 3 lines of type one Times New Roman bold, 19 May Memo and IBM Typewriter Font Condensed AND THE THREE LINES EACH WERE DIFFERENT convinced me he is cooking the books. That is line 2 and 3 contained an "an" that line 1 did not. Line 2 ends in a period that line 1 and 3 do not. Also why is line 1 bold and line 3 compressed?

And he misses the point. This is not a trial where the memos must be shown to be fake beyond a reasonable doubt. When you find memos that are copies when not chain of custody, you must prove them real beyond a reasonable doubt. He has failed.


78 posted on 09/26/2004 11:44:33 PM PDT by JLS
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