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- From: gs26@prism.gatech.EDU (Glenn R. Stone)
- Newsgroups: comp.mail.elm
- Subject: Re: Permanent status
- Message-ID: <79179@hydra.gatech.EDU>
- Date: 5 Jan 93 22:14:46 GMT
- References: <1993Jan5.005643.17337@leland.Stanford.EDU> <73H0QFC@math.fu-berlin.de>
- Reply-To: glenns@eas.gatech.edu
- Organization: The Group W Bench
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- In <73H0QFC@math.fu-berlin.de> guckes@math.fu-berlin.de (Sven Guckes) writes:
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- >jimbo@leland.Stanford.EDU (Godfather of Soul) writes:
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- >>but how does one generate a message with private or confidential status?
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- >I was wondering--I know how to read my mailbox and I have a password for
- >my account. Why on earth would we want stati like "private" or
- >"confidential" with email ?
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- Ummm, it could be that sometimes you have folk looking over your shoulder
- or some such, and sometimes you don't? or that there are some things
- you would read in a public cluster or dump to a public printer,
- and some you want back in your own private cubbyhole?
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- I know I have mail like that....
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- -- Glenn R. Stone (glenns@eas.gatech.edu)
- The second amendment: unrestricted and without apology. Dammit.
- These opinions are mine, and you can't have them.
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