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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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