http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=58551
http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=58552
Quite frankly I don’t get it. It took me about 5 seconds to pull up a site (using Google) that let me paste in the morse code and hit a button and have it translated into text. (the text turned out to include the url of the very site I was at to translate it, btw!)
So what the heck? I just don’t understand. Eutychus said he spent “a half an hour” on it… well… how is that anyone’s fault but Euty’s? It took me 5 seconds. There was nothing objectionable in the post, and it was sort of fun to find a way to decode it.
Did it just not occur to Euty to look for an automatic translator utility? And how is that the fault of the OP if so?