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Re:In 1844, Chess Was Online by cwillu on Friday December 19, 2025 @06:25AM (#46324605)
I believe the usual thing is to essentially encode it by the spaces between the taps, rather than the taps themselves.
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Re:In 1844, Chess Was Online by kqr on Friday December 19, 2025 @12:00PM (#46328086)
But then how does one distinguish between letters? Something like "ETA" would be difficult to tell apart from "II".
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