1996-07-04 - Re: Lack of PGP signatures

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From: David Lesher <wb8foz@nrk.com>
To: alano@teleport.com (Alan Olsen)
Message Hash: f9dc507af669eba677f088331206a8d0f924fc8864f245818fd9025faadae624
Message ID: <199607040145.VAA05041@nrk.com>
Reply To: <2.2.32.19960703220436.00e93fe8@mail.teleport.com>
UTC Datetime: 1996-07-04 04:37:14 UTC
Raw Date: Thu, 4 Jul 1996 12:37:14 +0800

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From: David Lesher <wb8foz@nrk.com>
Date: Thu, 4 Jul 1996 12:37:14 +0800
To: alano@teleport.com (Alan Olsen)
Subject: Re: Lack of PGP signatures
In-Reply-To: <2.2.32.19960703220436.00e93fe8@mail.teleport.com>
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> 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...

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