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From: jim@ezx.uucp (Jim Littlefield)
Newsgroups: news.sysadmin,comp.mail.uucp
Subject: Re: Passing proprietary messages through competitors or other sites
Message-ID: <1990Jul20.120520.2356@ezx.uucp>
Date: 20 Jul 90 12:05:20 GMT
References: <11613@hoptoad.uucp>
Organization: Sunrise Software Systems
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In article <11613@hoptoad.uucp> gnu@hoptoad.uucp (John Gilmore) writes:
>Within the last two months I have had to warn two different sites
>about passing proprietary traffic via hoptoad.
>
> [deleted]
>
>And I strongly suggest that any site that sends sensitive traffic,
>NOT run an automatic uucp router.  The router doesn't know what's an
>internal site, what's an innocuous site, and what's a competitor's site.

One would expect that a site needing to send sensitive traffic would use
some form of encryption.

You never really knows what path e-mail will actually take to get to the
target site.

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