Why do you guys worry about this - we have seen no fakes in weeks. Do you want 
me to change my return address and do one for you? Who would you like to hear 
from? How about a Joel Markewell, or should I wait until he is in Mexico and 
can't deny it? He will come back and be banned from every list. -G

On Wed, 13 Mar 1996, Eric Lundquist <ericl@oc*.wa*.ed*> wrote:
>On Wed, 13 Mar 1996, Mike Zimmerman wrote:
>
>> PGP, or some other authentication method does one thing and one
>> thing only, make sure the message is who is says it is from.
>> It does nothing to limit content, or conversation, or prevent
>> any individual from posting their views.  It does nothing to
>> enforce political correctness. 
>
>It _does_ limit conversation, since 99.9% of the people aren't willing to
>put up with the hassle of decrypting each message, and either won't read
>or will simply unsubscribe. 
>
>> Again, PGP causes no censorship, it simply would put an end to
>> (99.9% of) the fakes.
>
>Directly, no, but indirectly, by causing the unsubscription of everyone, 
>it does.
>
>I'd be curious to know how many people actually decrytped and read JR's
>PGP notes.  I didn't, and I'm probably more computer technically inclined
>than half the list base.   PGP is a pain.
>
>-Eric
>
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