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Paul Hoffman / IMC <phoffman(_at_)imc(_dot_)org> writes:
I don't see a need for this in the email world. In our many discussions of
the topic, two themes have always emerged:
- Signing in nice but is rarely needed
- When it is needed, you can encapsulate the message with its headers and
sign the result
--Paul Hoffman, Director
--Internet Mail Consortium
That doesn't work for News, unfortunately, where this feature is
considered to be essential. Encapsulation doesn't solve the problem.
Clearly, it would be possible for News to adopt some standard for this
that was entirely imcompatible with email, but that would cause problems
with news-mail gateways (in either direction) and, moreover, deliberate
incompatibility does not seem like a Good Thing unless it is technically
unavoidable.
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