1997-02-20 - Re: “cypherpunks is dead…”

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From: snow <snow@smoke.suba.com>
To: tcmay@got.net (Timothy C. May)
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UTC Datetime: 1997-02-20 19:18:31 UTC
Raw Date: Thu, 20 Feb 1997 11:18:31 -0800 (PST)

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From: snow <snow@smoke.suba.com>
Date: Thu, 20 Feb 1997 11:18:31 -0800 (PST)
To: tcmay@got.net (Timothy C. May)
Subject: Re: "cypherpunks is dead..."
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> At 3:37 PM -0500 2/19/97, Robert Hettinga wrote:
> is stil bogged down, for reasons I have to believe have to do with
> pressures from somewhere, else why would e-mail packages not make PGP
> support painless?)

	There are several packages that do provide at least some level 
of PGP integration, but I have 2 very good reasons:

	1) The "market place" isn't willing to pay for the additional work.

	2) It isn't "sexy" enough to cause a programmer to want to add it 
to a mailer just for fun. 

	







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