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  • Re: Looking for the title of a short story

    From Robert Woodward@3:633/10 to All on Wed Dec 10 21:43:39 2025
    In article <title-20251210212518@ram.dialup.fu-berlin.de>,
    ram@zedat.fu-berlin.de (Stefan Ram) wrote:

    In a short story, people are looking for signs of intelligent life.
    They've picked up a few signals, but none of it makes sense to
    the computers. Turns out, the message isn't hidden in the signals
    themselves but in how long the pauses between them are.

    Please let me know if you know the title of a story like that!

    As I posted elsewhere, this could be H. Beam Piper's "Naudsonce", see (https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?55482).

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  • From Ignatios Souvatzis@3:633/10 to All on Fri Dec 12 18:00:36 2025
    Stefan Ram wrote:
    In a short story, people are looking for signs of intelligent life.
    They've picked up a few signals, but none of it makes sense to
    the computers. Turns out, the message isn't hidden in the signals
    themselves but in how long the pauses between them are.

    Please let me know if you know the title of a story like that!

    That's the story I'm looking for since January 2024 <slrnuraf2k.469.u502sou@eva.bnhb484.de>, reposted in de.rec.sf.misc
    two days ago <slrn10jjcis.b78.u502sou@neuserv.bnhb484.de>


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  • From Ignatios Souvatzis@3:633/10 to All on Fri Dec 12 18:13:13 2025
    Stefan Ram wrote:

    In a short story, people are looking for signs of intelligent life.
    They've picked up a few signals, but none of it makes sense to
    the computers. Turns out, the message isn't hidden in the signals
    themselves but in how long the pauses between them are.

    Please let me know if you know the title of a story like that!

    Hey, that's the story I'm looking for for 23 months (see <slrnuraf2k.469.u502sou@eva.bnhb484.de> )

    then reposted in German in de.rec.sf.misc on 10dec2025 17:48 in <slrn10jjcis.b78.u502sou@neuserv.bnhb484.de>

    then reposted in rec.arts.sf.misc on 10dec2025 18:17 in <slrn10jje95.b78.u502sou@neuserv.bnhb484.de>

    No answers pointing to the right story yet.

    -is




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