At 04:06 PM 3/24/00 -0800, Paul Holman wrote: >of significant drawbacks to consider. First, this creates factions >in the user base. Email encryption is much like email itself. It is >really only useful if both people's systems can "talk" to each other. >Maybe you remember when online services were popular. If you were on >AOL, you could email others on AOL, but not those on Compuserve. Supporting PH's point, recall that the IP protocol itself (glory be its name) was invented to let all those (10?) machines to talk to each other, despite their bit ordering and other idiosyncracies.
