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Re: Permanent status

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From: Glenn R. Stone
Date: Tue, 05 Jan 1993 22:14
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In <73H0QFC@math.fu-berlin.de> guckes@math.fu-berlin.de (Sven Guckes) writes:

>jimbo@leland.Stanford.EDU (Godfather of Soul) writes:

>>but how does one generate a message with private or confidential status?

>I was wondering--I know how to read my mailbox and I have a password for
>my account. Why on earth would we want stati like "private" or
>"confidential" with email ?

Ummm, it could be that sometimes you have folk looking over your shoulder
or some such, and sometimes you don't?  or that there are some things 
you would read in a public cluster or dump to a public printer, 
and some you want back in your own private cubbyhole?  

I know I have mail like that....

-- Glenn R. Stone (glenns@eas.gatech.edu)
The second amendment: unrestricted and without apology.  Dammit.
These opinions are mine, and you can't have them.
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From: gs26@prism.gatech.EDU (Glenn R. Stone)
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Subject: Re: Permanent status
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Date: 5 Jan 93 22:14:46 GMT
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