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Subject: boustrophedonic wordjazz
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Date: Mon, 9-Jan-84 22:22:27 EST
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Posted: Mon Jan  9 22:22:27 1984
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Re: One-handed typing

     As a refreshing hiatus from such masochism, (v.i.z. recent item
from Steve Summit), we have alternate-hand keyboard input (e.g. "bicycle"
using QWERTY).  Constraining every other letter to opposite hands is
actually useful for password composition; that is, over-the-shoulder
voyeurs cannot so easily intercept a quickly typed shibboleth.

     One wag who used to work here confessed to invoking the services of
a random "boustrophedonic" word generator--not only for this paranoid 
application, but also for supplying program identifiers which needed to
be typed often!  A quick scan of a certain 93000 word list shows that

	dismantlement
	neurotoxicity

are maximal examples of such serendipity.  DVORAK enthusiasts--take that!

			-- James A. Woods  (hao!ames-lm!jaw)