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|    August Abolins to Wilfred van Velzen    |
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|    21 Jan 25 09:07:00    |
      MSGID: 2:221/1.58@fidonet 1ca11085       REPLY: 2:280/464 678f5bf1       PID: OpenXP/5.0.58 (Win32)       CHRS: ASCII 1       TZUTC: -0500       Hello Wilfred!               WvV> [...] Fidonet messages get published on the internet all        WvV> over the place, so that seemed like the correct thing to        WvV> do (as spam prevention)...              It's really too bad that somewhere along the way when FTN and        BBS messaging was purely direct B2B [bbs to bbs] and        represented snoop-free environments that some form of        encryption wasn't considered as part of the message format        later when internet was becoming the defacto transport        mechanism and "porting" to nntp-style bases and opening message        bases with open-web acesss was simply "fun" to do. Keeping        content of the messages out of the reach of skimmers and non-        bbs folk would have been wise.       --         ../|ug              --- OpenXP 5.0.58        * Origin: 0D0EB2A295204F3167EB2503CEF0E89655789589B (2:221/1.58)       SEEN-BY: 103/705 105/81 106/201 124/5016 128/187 153/757 7715 154/10       SEEN-BY: 154/30 110 203/0 218/700 221/1 6 226/30 227/114 229/110 114       SEEN-BY: 229/206 317 400 426 428 470 664 700 705 240/1120 5832 266/512       SEEN-BY: 280/464 5003 5006 291/111 292/8125 301/1 320/219 322/757       SEEN-BY: 341/66 234 342/200 396/45 423/81 120 460/58 256 1124 5858       SEEN-BY: 467/888 633/280 712/848 770/1 902/26 5020/400 8912 5054/30       SEEN-BY: 5075/35       PATH: 221/1 280/464 460/58 229/426           |
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