Richard Gambrell wrote:

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>By contrast, E-mail, like paper, seems to me to be a somewhat easier
>target for copying, in that it sits around in a file for a while here and
>for a while there.  The Internet needs a new generation of SMTP with
>transparent encryption that at least keeps the casual system administrator
>for noticing too much about the body of the message.  But instead, the

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I can't speak for other mail servers, but the one I've been using for the
past few years (Mdaemon for Win95/98/NT) has an option for encrypting
the file "while" it resides on the server.  That at least helps while your
email is "waiting at the bus stop" :)  Now of course this option is controlled
by your email administrator so if that's the person your worried about, it
doesn't help much.

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Michael L Gueterman
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