From: Alan Olsen <alano@teleport.com>
Date: Thu, 4 Jul 1996 13:30:52 +0800
To: wb8foz@nrk.com
Subject: Re: Lack of PGP signatures
Message-ID: <2.2.32.19960704022445.00e26020@mail.teleport.com>
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At 09:45 PM 7/3/96 -0400, David Lesher wrote:
>> I am wondering why there is not a signing option that ignores all
>> non-printing characters.  Might fix some of these problems...  (Can anyone
>> think of a reason this would be a "Bad Thing(tm)"?)
>
>Moving spaces could change meaning on a legal doc.
>
>A nonsense example is the alt.folklore.urbane "cow orker" tag...

I was thinking of carriage return/line feed combinations...  Spaces are
obvious and print.  I was thinking of non-printing characters that are
non-obivious when inserted.
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