From: Kent Crispin <kent@bywater.songbird.com>
Date: Mon, 13 Oct 1997 17:30:48 +0800
To: cypherpunks@cyberpass.net
Subject: Re: What's really in PGP 5.5?
In-Reply-To: <199710092259.PAA13153@proxy3.ba.best.com>
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On Fri, Oct 10, 1997 at 11:40:46AM +0100, Adam Back wrote:
> 
[...]
> 
> If the company has an approval system for official statements (seems
> reasonable, if it's a press release, important contractual decision,
> etc), then Alice can send a copy to the legal beagles for the ok, and
> they can send it on.

Isn't it the whole presumption that what Alice is sending is important
company information? That is, that Alice *is* a 'legal beagle' or some
such?  Casual or semi-private email may or may not be allowed, 
depending on how paranoid or repressive the company, but that isn't 
the issue, as I see it.  The issue is 'important company email'.

[...]

-- 
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