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Article #2090Re: PGP on Trivial Posts -- Who The Hell Cares?
From: Travis Corcoran
Date: Mon, 19 Jun 1995 00:00
Date: Mon, 19 Jun 1995 00:00
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In article <DAE5zt.KD0@world.std.com> jcooley@world.std.com (John Cooley) writes:
> From: jcooley@world.std.com (John Cooley)
> Newsgroups: ne.general,la.general,ba.general,nh.general,nyc.general
> Date: Sun, 18 Jun 1995 23:16:41 GMT
>
> All the extra PGP stuff
> did was clutter up his post. That is, if he was posting sensitive info
> I could understand -- but putting all this PGP overhead on trivial public
> posts is a serious waste of bandwidth in my opinion.
>
> -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
> __)) "Glass ceilings? Name ANY goat farmer who's made it into management!"
> /_ oo
> (_ \ Holliston Poor Farm - John Cooley
> %// \" Holliston, MA 01746-6222 part time Sheep & Goat Farmer
> %%% $ jcooley@world.std.com full time contract ASIC & FPGA Designer
How often does someone reading your posts need to know the ZIP+4 code
of your address? How often does someone need to know that you are a
part time "Sheep & Goat Farmer" ?
I think you're working yourself into a pretty big lather over
something on the order of 400 bytes long...
- --
TJIC (Travis J.I. Corcoran) TJIC@icd.teradyne.com
Member EFF, NRA, GOAL
opinions(TJIC) != opinions(employer(TJIC))
"Buy a rifle, encrypt your data, and wait for the Revolution!"
PGP encrypted mail prefered- mail for key. Ask me about mail-secure for EMACS.
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 10675b,18c11fbad36e00cd X-Google-Attributes: gid10675b,public X-Google-Thread: 1130cb,18c11fbad36e00cd X-Google-Attributes: gid1130cb,public X-Google-Thread: f824f,18c11fbad36e00cd X-Google-Attributes: gidf824f,public X-Google-Thread: f8b06,18c11fbad36e00cd X-Google-Attributes: gidf8b06,public X-Google-Thread: 107d03,18c11fbad36e00cd X-Google-Attributes: gid107d03,public From: tjic@porsche.icd.teradyne.com (Travis Corcoran) Subject: Re: PGP on Trivial Posts -- Who The Hell Cares? Date: 1995/06/19 Message-ID: <nsxagbef8or.fsf@porsche.icd.teradyne.com> X-Deja-AN: 104771110 references: <DAE5zt.KD0@world.std.com> organization: Teradyne (Boston) newsgroups: ne.general,la.general,ba.general,nh.general,nyc.general