Mystery print drum

[Fred Cisin]

On Tue, 3 Aug 2010, Chuck Guzis wrote:
> Does no one here do the daily Cryptoquote in the newspaper?
> If you do, you already realize that, regardless of the Linotype
> keyboard, letter frequency in English is highly variable, depending
> on the sample used.  About all that can be said is that E is the most
> frequently-occurring letter in the English language.  After that, the
> also-ran slots are up for grabs.  See, for example:
> http://www.atlas-games.com/pdf_storage/lh_frequencies.pdf
> So it's quite likely that the positions on the print drum were
> determined by an independent analysis of a sample text.

That's why I said "most common sequence"