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

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>Believe it or not Ted Nelson had a similar idea when he invented Xanadu
>Hypertext. He was obsessed by copyright and the notion that it would be
>wrong to copy someone else's text to another machine, hence the need for
>links.

Well, yes, but he's never been able to implement it, despite decades
of trying.  (I've known Ted since 1972, so I watched a lot of it
happen.)  Xanadu was always envisioned as a monolithic system that
didn't scale over large numbers of machines or wide geographic areas.
It's really interesting as a conceptual design, but the closest
working implentation is the WWW and that, to put it mildly, left out a
lot.

On the other hand, MIME can do multipart messages consisting of a
sequence of signed bodies right now, and most MUAs display them pretty
well.  I've never seen anything create one other than a list manager
like Mailman or mj2 adding a signature part after a signed body.

R's,
John



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