Re: The Thread That Wouldn't Die (Was: Re: McCoy is Right!)

["L. McCarthy" <lmccarth@ducie.cs.umass.edu>]

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Jim McCoy writes:
> Actually this "dump flamewar" has produced some good discussion regarding
> actual implementation issues. 

I beg to differ. If you think that was a good discussion, I'd hate to see what
you'd classify as a bad discussion. Crypto relevance was minimal, too.

> Everything that has happened with MIME will happen again when people try to 
> add cryptography to the structure of the net.  

It seems to me that people are *already* trying to add cryptography to the
structure of the net, and that would actually be worth discussing.

> Maybe there are some lessons to be learned here.

_Maybe_, but I don't think anyone's learning them.

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