Introduction

The second message contains several phrases in capital letters. Did they serve a purpose besides drawing attention to the song titles on the inside cover? It would appear that way.

Analysis

AS SOME OF YOU HAVE SUSPECTED
FOR SEVERAL MONTHS
LET ME BE CLEAR
CAREFULLY REVIEW

There are 15 words, containing 67 letters. The first letters of these words consist of 13 consonants and two vowels. A message there is unlikely. The second letters consist of 13 vowels and two consonants. But the last letters are different story. They are

SEFUED RLS TEER YW

This is a provocative combination of letters. It contains the phrase STEEL EYES, which is mentioned in a couple of different messages. But it also contains the phrase TRY USER ELFS. There is an "elf elf" on page eleven of the Division Bell songbook It contains the name ELY DUE WEST, the cathedral which appears so prominently in the songbook. That seems like a lot of coincidences.

I originally liked the phrase TRY USER SELF as an indicator of an anonymous ftp site. Someone suggested that only USER was important, and the last eleven letters were the username. This is an area where more work needs to be done. Perhaps some other message will contain a clue pointing to the ordering of the letters in the username.
 

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