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Re: PGP on Trivial Posts -- Who The Hell Cares?

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From: Travis Corcoran
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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From: tjic@porsche.icd.teradyne.com (Travis Corcoran)
Subject: Re: PGP on Trivial Posts -- Who The Hell Cares?
Date: 1995/06/19
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