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From: kehres@styx.UUCP (Tim Kehres)
Newsgroups: net.rumor,net.news.adm
Subject: Re: Reading other people's mail
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Date: Sat, 26-Apr-86 05:36:06 EDT
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In article <217@riacs.ARPA> jim@riacs.ARPA (Jim Houston) writes:
>I have to agree with the person who said if you really
>want your mail to be private, encrypt it. Otherwise, think of e-mail more like
>a broadcast medium. You have NO control over where the mail could wind up.
>(In fact, this message itself could wind up on some backup tape somewhere, only
>to be rediscovered and re-read in the distant future. :-) )

This is probably a practical way of looking at e-mail, however it should not
be used as an excuse for immoral or possible illegal reading of other's mail.
Encryption (which I am very much in favor of) should be considered another
tool to make the unauthorized reading of mail much more difficult.  Since 
just the message portion need to be encrypted, this should not make much of 
an impact on SA'a attempting to re-route stuck mail.

Tim Kehres
Control Data Corporaton / Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
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