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to: BILL CHEEK
from: BILL FUNK
date: 1996-08-15 19:49:00
subject: RE: RULEMAKING: PGP SIGS

On 13 Aug 96 09:51pm, Bill Cheek wrote to Joe Nicholson:
 BC>>> NOTICE OF PENDING RULEMAKING:  DISCUSSION AND COMMENTS ARE SOLICITED
 ...
 BC>>> We do have a rule limiting signature lines and the PGP thing
 BC>>> certainly appears to violate it.
 JN>>  Another reason they should be banned.  Make one exception and you
 JN>>  open a whole can of worms.
 BC> Except that digital sigs are coming into vogue everywhere else.
 They may be in vogue, but do they have anything to do with scanning?
 It seems to me that if the post isn't coded, a decoding key is simply not
 needed. As such, it becomes part of a signature line, and should be limited
 as any other sig line.
 As I see it.
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