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   August Abolins to Wilfred van Velzen   
   Test signing   
   21 Jan 25 09:07:00   
   
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   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   
      
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