From: "E. ALLEN SMITH" <EALLENSMITH@ocelot.Rutgers.EDU>
Date: Wed, 8 May 1996 15:02:41 +0800
To: frantz@netcom.com
Subject: Re: Transitive trust and MLM
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From:	IN%"frantz@netcom.com"  7-MAY-1996 23:02:33.09

>Some of the solution to this problem may come from the answer to the
>question, "What am I trusting the receiver with?"  I can see a number of
>possibilities:

	I think you've forgotten to allow for the signature use. I may want to
know if someone who's posting is indeed the usual/proper person posting from
that address, and in most situations without transitivity I won't be able to
tell.
	-Allen