Re: What real users think [was: Re: pgp signing in van]

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On 9/9/2013 4:09 PM, Brian E Carpenter wrote:
> On 10/09/2013 01:58, Ted Lemon wrote:
> ...
>> Seriously, this perfectly illustrates the reason why PGP hasn't seen widespread deployment: it doesn't address a use case that anybody understands or cares about, 
> 
> True story: Last Saturday evening I was sitting waiting for a piano
> recital to start, when I overheard the person sitting behind me (who
> I happen to know is a retired chemistry professor) say to his
> companion "Email is funny, you know - I've just discovered that when
> you forward or reply to a message, you can just change the other
> person's text by typing over it! You'd have thought they would
> make that impossible."
> 
> Yes, they should have made that impossible.
> 
>    Brian

Classic!

Its humiliating to think that there are tendencies to "restructure"
quoted text just to fit the common dimensions, i.e., 80x25, look
pretty -- the integrity was long gone!



-- 
HLS






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