Ken Brown wrote:
So you avoid using an email server by...
To use SafeMessage, a person signs on to the program with an ID and password, similarly to an >email client. When typing the recipient, the person sends the contact to AbsoluteFuture's server, which locates the recipient online and allows the sender to send the message directly to the recipient.
...using an email server!
How clever.
Yes, it sounded pretty good up until that point. And it must be a windoz thingy anyway -- if your using a linux box, you have your own sendmail server, so, of course, all linux boxes can send email peer-to-peer. But unless they're encrypted at the origin, however, they can still fall prey to Carnivore upstream. A really nice thing would be a mail client that did automagic crypt, plus a mixmaster component to hide the true name of the sender or receiver running on linux. A netscape plugin that did this would be very, very nice, if NS ever became truly opensource. Or some other client that handled html mail well. -- Harmon Seaver, MLIS Systems Librarian Arrowhead Library System Virginia, MN (218) 741-3840 hseaver@arrowhead.lib.mn.us http://harmon.arrowhead.lib.mn.us