🚀 go-pugleaf

RetroBBS NetNews Server

Inspired by RockSolid Light RIP Retro Guy

Article View: comp.mail.elm
Article #3625

Re: Permanent status

#3625
From: Sven Guckes
Date: Thu, 07 Jan 1993 00:14
19 lines
1239 bytes
gs26@prism.gatech.EDU (Glenn R. Stone) writes:

[Sven]
>>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?  

If we had to write software that ensures that the mail replies from
postings to alt.sex.bondage won't get printed out by careless folk -
then we might forget about it at all.

How about keeping people looking over your shoulder ? (hint hint)

-- 
Sven@safe.software.not |
I need a prog that prevents me from doing Something Silly[tm].
Technical Details
Message-ID: <FHJ0WDC@math.fu-berlin.de>
Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!math.fu-berlin.de!guckes
References: <1993Jan5.005643.17337@leland.Stanford.EDU> <73H0QFC@math.fu-berlin.de> <79179@hydra.gatech.EDU>

Show Full Headers
Complete Article Headers
Newsgroups: comp.mail.elm
Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!math.fu-berlin.de!guckes
From: guckes@math.fu-berlin.de (Sven Guckes)
Subject: Re: Permanent status
Message-ID: <FHJ0WDC@math.fu-berlin.de>
Originator: guckes@medusa
Sender: news@math.fu-berlin.de (Math Department)
Organization: Free University of Berlin, Germany
References: <1993Jan5.005643.17337@leland.Stanford.EDU> <73H0QFC@math.fu-berlin.de> <79179@hydra.gatech.EDU>
Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 00:14:28 GMT
Lines: 19