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If your news wire starts mangling data, you need to resend it, not guess.

And I bet you can get more reliability out of compressing and then adding error correction bits.



Bit of a late reply, but resending it is a form of redundancy, and so is adding error correction bits. It is cheaper to do these things (they require less bandwidth) when you start with a limited character set.




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