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Article #163Re: WPGP version 1.6
From: Brian B. Riley
Date: Mon, 22 Apr 1996 00:00
Date: Mon, 22 Apr 1996 00:00
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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- amikkels@melbpc.org.au (Allan Mikkelsen) wrote: ... deletia ... >I certainly hope that if newsreaders authors are to include an >automatic PGP system with their products, they also provide an >automatic filter to enable me to ignore any usenet messages with this >rubbish. Mr. Mikkelson ... if this is indeed how you feel, and you are so entitled, I am wondering just why you bother hanging out on a.s.p where the probability of having to subject yourself to such messages is infinitely greater. >I do understand the need for message and signature verification in >some cases. However, I cannot for the life of me see any case for it >in the quoted message. At the risk of resurrecting a horse thats been throughly flogged, one must sign every message regardless of its import to establish your identity in that any message appearing from you without a digsig should be suspect. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.3a Charset: cp850 iQCVAwUBMXwH7zTEZIFmKnZBAQE9GAP/XQiSAusL2PSG00hAev2Y7JGRBHSjBMWP 9mXD6V0+fsSmFHp5BnC78d/y3ECEsGkTh1NEJTw7QtCcWIylj//v1qw1kRe1dwpA 07UgJ8gkCyxGk/ghwaTviBjLPxjAXQNRJ2D2A9EBCGLp/fG5h6ckv2JmFQBdYvY3 5g5+wBRHsRE= =Mpg4 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- Brian B. Riley --> http://www.together.com/~brianbr "If this is the first day of the rest of my life, I am in DEEP trouble!"
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 1057c8,753005c2312162a3 X-Google-Attributes: gid1057c8,public X-Google-Thread: 10304d,753005c2312162a3 X-Google-Attributes: gid10304d,public X-Google-Thread: 1076a3,753005c2312162a3 X-Google-Attributes: gid1076a3,public X-Google-Thread: 1156f4,753005c2312162a3 X-Google-Attributes: gid1156f4,public From: brianbr@together.net (Brian B. Riley) Subject: Re: WPGP version 1.6 Date: 1996/04/22 Message-ID: <4lh125$gtp@bristlecone.together.net> X-Deja-AN: 150894831 references: <slrn4nfl50.1uhi.gostl@argos.argoscomp.com> <3178cdef.2221688@news.tip.net> <3179ecef.8620259@news.melbpc.org.au> organization: Wulfden at Hawk's Mountain newsgroups: alt.security.pgp,bit.listserv.pmail,alt.usenet.offline-reader.forte-agent,comp.mail.eudora.ms-windows