At 8:08 PM 7/31/95, Dr. Fred said:
it is impractical to verify that there are no subtle back doors
Ah. I knew my undergraduate philosophy degree from good ol' Mizzou would come in handy some day. In the sophistry biz, the above is an informal fallacy. It's called a disproving a negative, more popularly called the "Flying Saucer" fallacy, as in, "prove to me that flying saucers (or PGP trap-doors) don't exist". I would put the rest of your rejoinder in the same class of tinker-toy logic, Doc. You're testing my patience. Feeling flush from my New Orleans road trip, I went out and bought the commercial version of Eudora, filter-feature and all, which means I'm just itching to test it. In other words, it means you are flirting with the kill-file, the bozo-filter, more rudely, a <plonk!ing>. Play nice, Doc, or don't play at all. Cheers, Bob Hettinga ----------------- Robert Hettinga (rah@shipwright.com) Shipwright Development Corporation, 44 Farquhar Street, Boston, MA 02131 USA (617) 323-7923 "Reality is not optional." --Thomas Sowell
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