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From: gam@amdahl.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.news.adm
Subject: Re: looking at personal mail
Message-ID: <3091@amdahl.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 29-Apr-86 02:49:33 EDT
Article-I.D.: amdahl.3091
Posted: Tue Apr 29 02:49:33 1986
Date-Received: Fri, 2-May-86 06:46:14 EDT
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Reply-To: gam@amdahl.UUCP (G A Moffett)
Organization: Amdahl Corp, UTS Products Group
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Dave's was the best article I've seen so far on how to handle this mail
privacy issue.  If a site must go so far as to exampine what is sent
thru them -- why do they advertise their sites, then, as mail
couriers?  If they don't want the traffic, or don't care to uphold
conventions of privacy, why advertise?

It is not unusual for some sites to simply not advertise all their UUCP
links in the maps -- or mention only one.  They get very little traffic
flowing thru them, and pathalias(1) may as well think it is DEAD.

If SAs feel *burdened* by the traffic thru their systems, they should
discourage it, rather than police it to such degrees as we have heard
here.
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Gordon A. Moffett		...!{ihnp4,seismo,hplabs}!amdahl!gam

Everything you know is wrong.
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