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Re: PGP

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From: Matthew Lyle
Date: Wed, 06 Jan 1993 15:08
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Marc VanHeyningen <mvanheyn@whale.cs.indiana.edu> writes:
>Thus said eoliver@ralph.cs.haverford.edu (Erik Oliver):
>>I found that its interface made PGPs look terrific, IMHO.
>Can you be more specific?  What tasks did you find easier to perform
>using PGP?  How exactly did you attempt to perform them with each?
>RIPEM takes a bit of customization to make work smoothly, and works
>much better with some mailers than others (which is the fault of the
>mailer.)

Sounds like an excuse to me.  If you are creating a program that needs to
work with existing mailers you should architect it to do that.

I've not been impressed with RIPEM's user interface, and I've run it on
several platforms. 


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Matthew Lyle                                           matt@oc.com
                                                       matt@utdallas.bitnet
OpenConnect System, Dallas, Texas                      (214) 888-0474
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