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In article <819414802snx@holly.demon.co.uk>, Mark Rogers
<mcr@holly.demon.co.uk> writes

>> we always encrypt. It won't hold up a major government, but I expect it
>> will stop people on a network reading mail which they should not.
>
>I've mentioned this to Richard before, but this is a significant 
>disincentive to me. An option to have the mail/news stored in a standard 
>text format (albeit with binary index files) would be much appreciated. 
>Something for the wishlist for future versions?

No. It was one of the fundamental design decisions. The cost would be
extremely high to make such a change. You can always export the
mail/news to ASCII form if you need it like that for some purpose.

>As someone who runs a few mailing lists, I would imagine that Turnpike is 
>a non-starter anyway (Richard?). 

I would not recommend it for that purpose.

>The problem with a tightly integrated package (as Turnpike appears to be) 
>is that anything it doesn't offer can't easily be added in later.

We are finding it quite easy :)

> This is 
>fine for as long as Turnpike does everything the user wants, but an 
>experienced user it is likely to be very frustrating.

If what they want to do makes sense (not necessarily the solution they
propose, but the problem which they want solving); then it will be
sensible of us to tackle it.

> I'm sure, however, 
>that Demon have made a good choice on the basis of what they were trying 
>to achieve; the fragile newusers should be a lot better off.

There's a remarkable number of non-fragiles using it too.

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