Re: PGP automation

[nobody@cicada.berkeley.edu]

> > secure stuff.  Anyone here have any other suggestions on making encryption
> > less of a pain?
>
>This may seem a little excessive, but the only sensible way to use
>pgp in environments like yours or prz's (heh heh) is to set yourself
>up with your own site at home, either with a dialup SLIP/PPP feed or
>a plain and cheap uucp feed.  Both of those options are becoming much
>cheaper than they used to be, and you can run suitable software on all
>sorts of computers - whatever you're using to dial in to your timeshare
>service at the moment would probably do, as long as its not just a dumb
>terminal.  DOS, a free unix or linux, Amiga, Atari - they can all handle
>at least uucp if not tcp/ip too.  If you don't have suitable hardware,
>you can surelu find a 286 dos box with an old 20Mb drive and plain text-
>only display secondhand somewhere for $200 or less...  that'll run UUPC
>or even KA9Q.

Why not just get Nupop, a freeware mail downloader, off Simtel? No good for
reading newsgroups, but mail, no problem.
>
>If you care about privacy in your email, you *have* to run it all the
>way into your own machine.

Agreed.