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echo: nthelp
to: Geo
from: Ellen K.
date: 2005-03-13 23:08:34
subject: Re: E-mail

From: Ellen K. 

No, I disagree.  I invite non-IT people to meetings all the time using the
GroupWise appointment functionality.

On Thu, 10 Mar 2005 06:15:16 -0500, "Geo" 
wrote in message :

>"Rich"  wrote in message news:422fe6b0{at}w3.nls.net...
>>>an untrusted channel not a secure channel.  Think of it as similar to
>delivering a signed download over HTTP vs. any download (signed or not) over
>HTTPS.<<
>
>I'm not sure which you are claiming is secure but the signed example
>requires both client ends to use the same signing system and the https
>example is between you and your server but not the rest of the email
>transaction. In the first case email isn't secure because everyone isn't
>using the same signing system (it's not required) and in the second example
>it's wide open between your server and every other server on the planet so
>again it's not secure.
>
>>>To schedule I meeting
>
>In this example you assume everyone you are inviting to the meeting is a
>hard core computer user, a fair assumption if you work for a computer
>related company but not if you work for a plastics company where most
>employees barely grasp the concept that an email address has to have an {at} in
>it..
>
>Geo.
>

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