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From: philip@axis.UUCP (Philip Peake)
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Subject: Re: Reading other peoples' mail
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Date: Mon, 5-May-86 05:06:08 EDT
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Posted: Mon May  5 05:06:08 1986
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Reply-To: philip@axis.UUCP (Philip Peake)
Organization: Axis Digital, 135 rue d'Aguesseau, Boulogne, 92100, FRANCE
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During this debate, some reference has been made to the possibility
of encrypting mail. There is only one potential drawback here - some
sites seem to have developed a nasty habit of stripping the eighth bit
of any data passing through them. I discovered this by accident when
someone recently sent me some files which had been 'pack'ed to reduce
transmission costs. They were (of course) useless with the eighth bit
stripped off ...

This doesn't seem like reasonable behaviour to me. I suppose that the
moral is to convert your encrypted mail to a hex representation before
sending it ...