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Re: list of user-visible goals

2004-02-06 03:06:49

Ian Peter writes about payment via email:
I think it needs to be addressed by the "email" mechanism, because if the medium is unsecure, unreliable, untrustworthy, can make false address claims, or be redirected to somewhere I don't intend it to go (to give a few examples) email cannot be readily used for secure purposes.

Right. But there's nothing special about that particular purpose, is there? All of these four would seem to be equivalent wrt. your paragraph:

 - writing a love letter to someone other than my wife
 - applying from a new job using my current employer's email system
 - sending a contract to be printed, signed and returned
 - paying powells.com for a couple of books

Arnt


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