At 3:58 AM 11/29/94, Lucky Green wrote:
Have you used premail? It pretty much does all of that. People still aren't using premail, either because they can't figure out how to install it (doubtful, it's not hard to install), or because they don't have a need for it that's great enough to justify the (minimal) time neccesary to ftp it and install it, or wait the (sometimes more painful) time neccesary for the computer to encrypt and/or sign your outgoing messages.
I think there is still a difference between having functionality available for some effort (ftping, installing, reading the instructions) and having a menu item in Eudora. The difference is the same one that makes Macintoshes more popular than Unix boxes for the people out there who just want to get something done ("The Rest Of Us"). Full integration into mainstream products is nessessary before Your Avarage Joe out there will bother to use the various tools available. This may be somewhere in between Tim's pusher/puller distinctions - crypto-related technologies are compelling, but not enough to draw people in without ease of use. "If you build it, they will come (but only if it is pretty)." -j -- On the internet, no one knows you're a deity. ___________________________________________________________________ Jamie Lawrence <jamiel@sybase.com> Soon ---------> <foodie@netcom.com>