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- From: guckes@math.fu-berlin.de (Sven Guckes)
- Subject: Re: Permanent status
- Message-ID: <FHJ0WDC@math.fu-berlin.de>
- Originator: guckes@medusa
- Sender: news@math.fu-berlin.de (Math Department)
- Organization: Free University of Berlin, Germany
- References: <1993Jan5.005643.17337@leland.Stanford.EDU> <73H0QFC@math.fu-berlin.de> <79179@hydra.gatech.EDU>
- Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 00:14:28 GMT
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- gs26@prism.gatech.EDU (Glenn R. Stone) writes:
-
- [Sven]
- >>Why on earth would we want stati like "private" or "confidential" with email ?
- >
- >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?
-
- If we had to write software that ensures that the mail replies from
- postings to alt.sex.bondage won't get printed out by careless folk -
- then we might forget about it at all.
-
- How about keeping people looking over your shoulder ? (hint hint)
-
- --
- Sven@safe.software.not |
- I need a prog that prevents me from doing Something Silly[tm].
-