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From: weemba@garnet.berkeley.edu (Obnoxious Math Grad Student)
Newsgroups: news.misc
Subject: Re: Decrypting the P&W Digest Etc.
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Date: 13 Sep 88 08:06:55 GMT
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In-reply-to: mack@inco.UUCP (Dave Mack)

I'd like to add one clarification about Gnews rot13, namely that it is
treated as an Emacs minor mode.  This means that whenever rot13ing has
been done, either directly or via user-defined hooks, a "rot13" appears
in the mode line.  My Emacs-trained peripheral vision is such that I
can't help but notice the "rot13" when it appears, or when I check the
article number, or the percentage so far, or the last line of the window
display, etc.

In other words, the user does get to know if he is looking at a rot13ed
article.  He does not have to wonder whether someone sent something of-
fensive through in the clear, or if his own folly is responsible.

And I'm glad that we all agree that a newsreader defaulting to autorot13
is illegitimate under any circumstances: what newsreader does this, btw?

ucbvax!garnet!weemba	Matthew P Wiener/Brahms Gang/Berkeley CA 94720