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From: rob@nitrex.UUCP (rob robertson)
Newsgroups: net.news.adm
Subject: Re: reading of other people's mail
Message-ID: <380@nitrex.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 26-Jun-86 12:32:06 EDT
Article-I.D.: nitrex.380
Posted: Thu Jun 26 12:32:06 1986
Date-Received: Sat, 28-Jun-86 05:22:20 EDT
References: <62@houligan.UUCP>
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Organization: The Standard Oil Co., Cleveland
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In article <62@houligan.UUCP> dave@smaug.UUCP (Dave Cornutt) writes:
>
>I think that trying to draw an analogy between e-mail and anything else
>is a futile exercise.  E-mail isn't any of those things and to try to
>come up with an ethic in that manner is kind of pointless.  Let's consider
>what WE think the ethic should be as opposed to trying to come up with
>something based on some other system.
>
>Here's what I think: I don't trust the privacy of e-mail, and if I have
>anything confidential to send, I do it by some other method (private
>link, mailed magtape, etc.).  

If your on a unix system sending to a unix system, try mark horton's
uuencode/uudecode, along with crypt.  Takes a little longer, and is
a bit of a hastle, but it works.

rob

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