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[gnu: Policies for dealing with insecurely certified email]


From: gnu () toad com <gnu () toad com>
Date: Sun, 01 Aug 93 15:21:39 -0700



There's been recent discussions in PEM-DEV of what should happen to
email which uses Privacy-Enhanced Mail protocols, but where the
identify of the sender can't be determined.  Sometimes this is because
the authority figure who certified their identity isn't trusted; other
times, because the authority deliberately doesn't attempt to certify
identity.  One suggestion was that such mail be automatically
rejected; others have proposed various degrees of annoyance to the
person reading the mail.  My response:

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