Four old puzzles #1

On Oct 22, 9:53*pm, jonnie303 wrote:
Given your "hint", a puzzle which seemed too hard is now much easier
to unravel. I am writing a short piece to claim to have found a
solution. Am I correct?

[by]
jonnie303, uk-

(My response is unconstrained.)

Kudos to Jonnie303 and Ken, and thanks for solving my
puzzle! Clicking on Google's "Find other posts"
button I see both of you have solved my puzzles
in the past, often with very clever solutions.

Apologies to Ken for not noticing the small error
in his post. I do have a simple executable for
testing such passages, however the executable runs
only on Unix and I read Usenet only on Windows.
I won't waste time looking for a Linux driver
for my cell-phone Internet connection: it's so
dreadfully slow (Note 1) I'm likely to throw the
cell-phone against the wall any day now!

Note 1: Actually the connection is plenty fast
enough for what I *want* to view, but not fast
enough to cope with the huge armadas of ads,
stylesheets and javascripts "needed" these days
to display a few sentences of simple text.

James Dow Allen

ken wrote in news:631643c6-50ae-411e-9f4a-71306e02e825
@2g2000prl.googlegroups.com:

Light dawns (I hope?)
Scary how many hours I pondered this - and how many rules got despatched.
I agree with a prior message - It has been a struggle in the making of this
reply.
I can't go any further

Sid