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Re: Sandy and the Doc
At 12:16 AM -0800 1/19/97, Igor Chudov @ home wrote:
>If you trust me, or someone else, like Prof. Dave Hayes, here's what
>we can do: I establish a sendmail alias [email protected] that
>expands to, say, your address and also [email protected].
>
>...
>
>If you indeed notice an impropriety, the digitally signed receipts
>will be your proof that articles were submitted. As long as the
>other readers trust me (or Dave Hayes, or whoever volunteers), you
>will have a strong case even without relying on freudian slips.
I hope if such a system is set up, people who use it will realize that
email is not 100% reliable. Just because algebra.com sent mail to
toad.com, doesn't mean that toad.com actually received it. A small
fraction of a percent of these messages will be lost.
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