From: Alan Olsen <alano@teleport.com>
To: “Deranged Mutant” <WlkngOwl@unix.asb.com>
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Message ID: <2.2.32.19960617043139.00d52ba8@mail.teleport.com>
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UTC Datetime: 1996-06-17 08:44:55 UTC
Raw Date: Mon, 17 Jun 1996 16:44:55 +0800
From: Alan Olsen <alano@teleport.com>
Date: Mon, 17 Jun 1996 16:44:55 +0800
To: "Deranged Mutant" <WlkngOwl@unix.asb.com>
Subject: Re: Snake Oil on the Water...
Message-ID: <2.2.32.19960617043139.00d52ba8@mail.teleport.com>
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At 08:47 PM 6/16/96 +0000, Deranged Mutant wrote:
>Actually, it is much better than Eudora and has plug-ins for
>encryption. The native encryption sucks, and the author warns
>against it (it's there as a demo of the crypto API!).
I found this part out later. My mistake for not checking the program docs.
[snip]
>Seems like the person who wrote that message doesn't know what he's
>talking about.
That is very true. He is clueless and unrepentantly so. His private e-mail
to me indicates it in spades. (As well as being rude and insulting for even
challenging his claims about the program.)
>There's a difference between snake oil and a user who doesn't
>understand a product.
True. I was not aware that the author of the program had warned against
using it as well. Evidently this guy did not read that part as well...
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