Yo! Marc:
Friday August 23 1996 00:30, Marc Blitz wrote to Bill Cheek:
 BC>> FidoNet's Policy 4 expressly prohibits encrypted messages, so we
 BC>> have to take that into account.  Not only that, but we cannot
 BC>> tamper with the header and footer of a message, either.  That's
 BC>> moot because most message reader/editors don't display the
 BC>> headers and footers anyway.
 MB> Well, since its OUR network, fido can go pound salt.
 MB> On the fido bases, of course we comply, but on our network, we dont.
Not sure what you mean there, but Fidonet's Policy4 is very enforceable, and 
there are some things you just don't do.  The hierarchy structure makes it an 
enforceable thing and it works.
Now for example, even as Moderator, I do not have the authority to permit 
encrypted messages on this echo.  There is some doubt as to whether I have 
the authority to allow digital signatures.  There is very little else, 
however, that constrains me, as moderator.  Some basic technical policies, 
but nothing too far out.
 MB> And you should see some of the msgs we get in cross-posted from other
 MB> networks, theres two and three lists of footers added as they cross the
 MB> nets...
Oh, I know........and it's only going to get worse before it gets any better. 
Good thing the cost of moving mail is insignificant anymore.
Bill Cheek | Internet: bcheek@cts.com | Compu$erve: 74107,1176
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