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From: daveb@geac.UUCP (Brown)
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Subject: Re: red herrings (was spell bug?????)
Message-ID: <1101@geac.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 12-Aug-87 10:40:21 EDT
Article-I.D.: geac.1101
Posted: Wed Aug 12 10:40:21 1987
Date-Received: Fri, 14-Aug-87 04:11:25 EDT
References: <541@augusta.UUCP> <6257@brl-smoke.ARPA> <944@bsu-cs.UUCP> <182@genghis.UUCP>
Reply-To: daveb@geac.UUCP (Dave Brown)
Organization: The little blue rock next to that twinkly star.
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>In article <944@bsu-cs.UUCP>, dhesi@bsu-cs.UUCP (Rahul Dhesi) writes:
>> A good way of preserving a copyright on collections of items that
>> individually cannot be copyrighted is to include a few red herrings
>> that could not be there by chance.... Similarly, I've heard that
>> dictionaries include a few authentic-sounding nonsense words that were
>> created by the publisher.

This is also often used on maps, but the technique is subtler: a road
junction is malformed to look (subtely) different than on the
underlying topo maps.  This can, of course, be taken to extremes:  the
tourist map of PEI (Prince Edward Island) contains a number of blatant 
lies...
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