At 03:21 PM 8/11/97 -0400, tzeruch - at - ceddec - dot - com wrote:
Not quite. If you read closely, the EAR says something about reserving judgment on OCR publications. You didn't use a specific OCR font, but you did put all kinds of other OCR helps in, which should by itself cloud the issue. It would be nice if it was resolved.
Of course they say the "reserve judgement" - they'd really like to control it, but they know their chances of getting it past the First Amendment are extremely low, so it's just FUD. I thought the PGP source code was printed in nice, friendly OCR-B font, but OCR equipment is good enough that Courier 10 or random popular fonts from Laserjets will do. (Proportional spaced is still a bit harder to recognize than constant-width, but not by much.) Reading text typed on an IBM Selectric was practical 10 years ago, when cheap ($10K) 68000-based OCR machines were starting to come out which weren't made by Kurzweil (who made great $30K machines.) If they want to block OCR-readable stuff, they're blocking just about everything printed today. # Thanks; Bill # Bill Stewart, +1-415-442-2215 stewarts@ix.netcom.com # You can get PGP outside the US at ftp.ox.ac.uk/pub/crypto/pgp # (If this is a mailing list or news, please Cc: me on replies. Thanks.)