All of these ideas (on new term programs for grabbing news, and for getting PGP sigs from scrollback, etc etc) are all very interesting and worthy of more work. However, I think the BEST way to do this, is to convince Mustang Software (or whoever) to add hooks for PGP or other encryption packages, and then the rest should soon follow. Most users WILL NOT quit using QModem (or whatever) for a new term program that has nothing special but crypto. BUT if you can get crypto into the popular packages, then lots of users WILL use it since well it's THERE, and easy to get to and they don't have to switch software.
Actually, I've implimented much of this in telix, using it's (C-like) script language. From the command line, I can type in the name of a batch file. That batch file starts telix, logs me in, sends any mail I have created/encrypted on my machine, and downloads all my new mail, to be read from another batch file. My mail reader batch file uses pgp to read my mail and presents a nice message selection menu, too. Totally transparent, and automated. I'm quite prowd of it. The only thing to do is clean it up a bit, and impliment reply-quoting. That should be done by the end of the week. If any one is interested in what I have.....ask me. BTW, I have had a few bug reports on my pgp menu batch file for 4dos. I will also have it fixed by the end of the week and will release it next week. +-----------------------+-----------------------------+---------+ | J. Michael Diehl ;-) | I thought I was wrong once. | PGP KEY | | mdiehl@triton.unm.edu | But, I was mistaken. |available| | mike.diehl@fido.org | | Ask Me! | | (505) 299-2282 +-----------------------------+---------+ | | +------"I'm just looking for the opportunity to be -------------+ | Politically Incorrect!" <Me> | +-----If codes are outlawed, only criminals wil have codes.-----+ +----Is Big Brother in your phone? If you don't know, ask me---+