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Re: WPGP version 1.6

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From: Brian B. Riley
Date: Mon, 22 Apr 1996 00:00
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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.


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 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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From: brianbr@together.net (Brian B. Riley)
Subject: Re: WPGP version 1.6
Date: 1996/04/22
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