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[whitekeyes]

Perhaps there's a different code style, in reference to the misspelled letters, other than just a simple jumble. There are a number of other codes listed in the tutorial section of this website. It will take a long time to solve, but we should be able to come up with something all together.
I think all mistakes should be taken as purposeful, and none as genuine. They wouldn't be that sloppy. After all, it could mean the difference between us solving this thing or not.

yougrok.com does seem promising! Maybe the site itself is OOG, but maybe bungie is using it anyway to give us help and hope. Observe the series of circles and the instructions at the top left. They say: "To grok is to fully understand. [...]. The answer to the smaller set of circles will help you grok the larger set." The smaller set of circles is like the clues we have now. I've thought before that we shouldn't analyze each individual clue too much, like the Slide_Ref070107.jpg or the these misspelled letters, but rather how they all fit together. What are they pointing at? If we can figure out this first set of circles, then it will lead us to the other circles, eventually taking us to an answer.

Also note that if the smaller set of circles is to be taken as one clue, then there are seven circles is total. Or 7 sets of clues.

The website was setup in August 2005, I believe. Someone should try and contact them or look on their site for more stuff. [/code]

[redct]

YouGrok.com has absolutely nothing to do with this. It's a privately owned company: http://www.groxis.com/service/grokker/enterprise.html?id=PS9VHwsZ

[ArchonII]

[AngriBuddhist]

I had no intention of this turning into another "yes.igrok" thread.

I really wanted to show the results of some out of the box thinking.

Sorry. Now we have 11 versions of the same thread.

[Tweek178]

I don't mean to be trout-ish if I am, but has there been any juxtapositioning of the the 100 keys with the email? I was just thinking that Authentification often goes with "key" and I wondered if appending the number string, or whatever forms the keys take to some aspect of the email address or "from" address might be in order.

Here's hoping we can crack this thing...

[Weezel]

Looking to revisit this. I read through the original thread and looked at the choices they made on the misspellings. It's not only missing letters, but additional letters, spaces and non-capitals. I'm working with several subsets of the text to see if some of these could be excluded.

For example,
'dndsndp srdnsreeateotoa~mde-- is all the characters that the original poster suggested we use.

'ndnpsrnaotae are missing from words.

dsdseto~-- are added to words.

Things to consider excluding:
D for Mr. Mitchell instead of Dr. Mitchell. It's not a mispelled word, it's just not the same use of his title.

E for non-caps Eastern. It's not a mispelled word, its a improper use of a proper noun.

We also have several additional spaces. I've seen what so ever spelled with spaces in it. I've tried finding a definative use one way or the other, but I've seen clarification of it spelled both ways. So I'm not entirely convinced that the spaces should be included.

Just wanted to throw out there some alternate ways of looking at it. I really think the ~ is just screaming to be a website URL addition.. just trying to find the right words... possibly something on the SOTA website itself.

.W.

[redct]

Please keep it on topic!

Yes, the ~ could be a website user folder like I mentioned earlier

[Yauch]

[Cloaked Hunter]

[redct]

I guess I was misinterpreted - I'm not saying that the server will spit out "550 Relay Not Permitted" for any error, I'm saying that it's a universal error code used by all servers - so not just one will spit out "550", all of them will under the right circumstances.