Yo! Marc:
Saturday August 17 1996 16:44, Marc Blitz wrote to Bill Cheek:
 MB>    On another net Im runnning, the same thing cropped up.
 MB> We permit fully digital encryption, and encourage 1024 bit codes. We DO
 MB> however, like ham radio, require the to and from to be legible, just as
 MB> you have to ID in english on Ham radio in the US.
 MB> We've taken the position that an encrypted mail base is necessary to
 MB> prevent unauthorized viewing, and made a seperate mail base for that...
 MB> So the user makes the decision to encrypt or not to based on his 
capacity,
 MB> there is NO translation done, so encrypted stuff is not mixed with the
 MB> "in-the-clear" stuff..
FidoNet's Policy 4 expressly prohibits encrypted messages, so we have to take 
that into account.  Not only that, but we cannot tamper with the header and 
footer of a message, either.  That's moot because most message reader/editors 
don't display the headers and footers anyway.
The issue here is JUST for digital signatures ONLY which, in this case, are 
more or less comparable to "tag lines" or like my two-line signature below.
Really, a part of the message body.
Bill Cheek | Internet: bcheek@cts.com | Compu$erve: 74107,1176
Windows 95 Juggernaut Team | Microsoft MVP
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