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From: syd@DSI.COM (Syd Weinstein)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.elm
Subject: Re: encryption and elm
Keywords: encryption elm
Message-ID: <1990Nov27.232503.27488@DSI.COM>
Date: 27 Nov 90 23:25:03 GMT
References: <4516@cocoa7.UUCP>
Reply-To: syd@DSI.COM
Organization: Datacomp Systems, Inc.  Huntingdon Valley, PA
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protofan@motcid.UUCP (Mike S. Protofanousis) writes:
>When I try to save a message which has been [encoded], the resulting
>file is not decoded.

>I believe elm should ask for the decryption key and then save 
>the file!
This is really not a bug or a feature, but a problem, ie design
issue that has no right or wrong answer.

If the reason its being saved is to put it into a mail folder, then
it should not be decoded.  If it is being saved for its contents,
then perhaps, yes.

However, as we say in the monthly post, their are a lot of things that
are not well discussed or implimented in endoded messages.
Please review that.  Dialog about how encoded messages are always
welcome, code fixes are also welcome.
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Sydney S. Weinstein, CDP, CCP                   Elm Coordinator
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