>Ah, an old(ish) one, its pretty nifty.
>I wonder if it is possible to exploit this phenomena to compress
>text substantially more than the norm - sort of an "mp3" style
>lossy compression.  Interesting that the letters for each word
>are all there, if they were mostly random I bet it would be
>unreadable.  This would allow more text to be transmitted over
>some kind of extremely limited channel, not sure what an
>application might be.  There are probably better ways to go
>about tackling that kind of problem though.

I was thinking more along the lines of having text like this and then 
encrypting it before sending. I suspect the letter re-ordering would foul up 
most attempts at attempting to work out the decrypt algorithm. 

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