From: Shawn McMahon Area: Public Key Encryption To: Richard Dale 25 Apr 95 11:51:14 Subject: Re: Encrypted Messages UpdReq Despite the stern warnings of the tribal elders, Richard Dale said this to Jeffrey Bloss: RD> Sheesh. The ignorance is *appalling*. The answers are freely RD> available, but he seems to rely on his misinformed opinion rather RD> than taking the SLIGHTEST opportunity to educate himself. There RD> are two other countries which I've heard of, but can't confirm. RD> One is France, and it looks like England is thinking about making RD> it illegal as well. Richard, the *FACT* is that you were shooting your mouth off with no idea what the true facts were. You claimed it was illegal in "many" countries. Yet, you can only name a couple. The fact is, there aren't enough where it's illegal to characterize them as "many." You're a real piece of work, Dale. 201434369420143436942014343694201434369420143436942014343694718 From: Shawn McMahon Area: Public Key Encryption To: Richard Dale 25 Apr 95 11:53:54 Subject: Re: encrypted messages UpdReq Despite the stern warnings of the tribal elders, Richard Dale said this to David Chessler: DC>>*No, not true. The only countries where PGP is known to be illegal are France DC>>*and several Arab states. It is legal in most of Europe and Asia, and all of RD> How many is "many"? Is "many" more than "several"? Less than RD> "most"? What's our reference point? Oh, I see; I disagree with you about it being "many" and it's just "my uninformed opinion." Chessler disagrees with you, and you start the quick backtracking. Why not just admit you were wrong? 201434369420143436942014343694201434369420143436942014343694718 From: Tom Almy Area: Public Key Encryption To: Ian Hebert 25 Apr 95 06:32:10 Subject: Send/rec PGP Msg's UpdReq -=> Quoting Ian Hebert to Tom Almy <=- IH> Actually, there are two Usenet groups, alt.anonymous and IH> alt.anonymous.messages. The idea behind these is that people can post IH> encrypted messages to you there; you can pick out the ones to you via IH> a pre-arranged subject header. Major waste -- why not just send email? Or is this just to foil attempts at traffic monitoring? Tom 201434369420143436942014343694201434369420143436942014343694718