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From: paulsc@iddic.UUCP (Paul Scherf)
Newsgroups: net.jokes
Subject: Re: Offensive Joke Encoding
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Date: Thu, 10-Oct-85 13:38:04 EDT
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Keywords: rot13 encoding
Xref: tektronix net.jokes:14337 
Summary: tr 'a-zA-Z' 'n-za-mN-ZA-M'

algorithm:	shift the alphabetic characters
		(right or left, it doesn't matter)
		13 characters to encode and/or decode
sh/csh:		tr 'a-zA-Z' 'n-za-mN-ZA-M'
rn:		X	(or was it x or ^X ?)

Isn't this in net.announce.newusers?

sample rot13 joke:
D: Jul qvq gur puvpxra pebff gur ebnq?
N: Gb trg gb gur bgure fvqr.