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- From: dclunie@pax.tpa.com.au (David Clunie)
- Newsgroups: news.groups
- Subject: Re: RFD: comp.security.email
- Date: 25 Dec 1992 23:49:40 GMT
- Organization: Her Master's Voice
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- References: <1gouiaINN3v2@news.UU.NET>
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- In article 1gouiaINN3v2@news.UU.NET, Ran Atkinson <atkinson@itd.nrl.navy.mil> () writes:
- > This is a formal Request for Discussion on creation of a newsgroup
- >to discuss electronic mail security and software to provide additional
- >security in email.
- >
- > The discussions of PGP are really beyond the normal scope of
- >sci.crypt and reportedly have had the effect of drowning out the prior
- >discussions. There are sufficient postings on PGP and PEM in existing
- >newsgroups to justify creating a separate group for discussions of
- >email security.
-
- I would actually suggest a hierarchy rather than a single group, due to the
- volume of both legal and technical material which really should be kept
- separate ...
-
- comp.security.email.technical
-
- comp.security.email.legal
-
- If sufficient traffic develops in the technical group, subdivision by protocol
- in to separate groups such as ".pgp", ".pem" and ".misc" might be appropriate.
-
- Some might suggest that the ".legal" group should be renamed or perhaps
- subdivided into ".moral", ".philosophical" and perhaps ".totally.uninformed" :)
-
- Perhaps even a "comp.security.email.fan.sternlight" group is necessary !
-
- Seriously though, I think some subdivision is worth discussion, in view of
- the resent torrent of non-technical stuff. It seems to be a lot easier to do
- this up front, especially in view of the recent bloodletting over splitting
- of other groups.
-
- I would also like to see a "comp.security.email.anonymous" group as this is a
- personal interest of mine, and the technical discussion is somewhat different
- in nature from the general cryptographic stuff. Actually thinking about this
- makes me wonder if these groups really belong under comp.security at all and
- perhaps would be better off as:
-
- comp.mail.privacy.technical
-
- comp.mail.privacy.legal
-
- comp.mail.anonymous
-
- As there is already a well established mail hierarchy, include a group for
- discussion of mime which seems directly relevant to a lot of this.
-
- david
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