From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,e5c972d04da95d51 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2003-04-17 10:15:12 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!cyclone.bc.net!news.uunet.ca!nf3.bellglobal.com!nf1.bellglobal.com!nf2.bellglobal.com!news20.bellglobal.com.POSTED!not-for-mail Message-ID: <3E9EDD8E.2060502@cogeco.ca> From: "Warren W. Gay VE3WWG" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.0.2) Gecko/20030208 Netscape/7.02 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: SPAM-less email (was If anybody wants to make something in Ada butdo not know what) References: <3E9D61C0.5070103@cogeco.ca> <3E9D8090.F86AF4EC@spam.no> <3E9D8625.4090308@cogeco.ca> <3E9DCD66.530F5CE9@spam.no> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Thu, 17 Apr 2003 12:59:58 -0400 NNTP-Posting-Host: 198.96.223.163 X-Complaints-To: abuse@sympatico.ca X-Trace: news20.bellglobal.com 1050598797 198.96.223.163 (Thu, 17 Apr 2003 12:59:57 EDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 17 Apr 2003 12:59:57 EDT Organization: Bell Sympatico Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:36243 Date: 2003-04-17T12:59:58-04:00 List-Id: Samuel Tardieu wrote: >>To my >>mind, the biggest problem communication schemes face is not being >>mainstream. It's already not a difficult matter to encrypt emails >>with PGP, but I still don't get encrypted emails, and I don't send them >>myself (often). > > The problem with OpenPGP is that you do not know whether people do > prefer encrypted emails or not. I do favor them, but I know people > who want to use OpenPGP only when they need to, because it adds > some complexity into their email system. > > Sam Part of the solution is of course looking for ways to simplify. However, I have never found sendmail to be simple, and yet it is still widely used. But there is room to design something better! -- Warren W. Gay VE3WWG http://home.cogeco.ca/~ve3wwg