At 08:47 PM 6/16/96 +0000, Deranged Mutant wrote:

Actually, it is much better than Eudora and has plug-ins for encryption. The native encryption sucks, and the author warns against it (it's there as a demo of the crypto API!).

I found this part out later. My mistake for not checking the program docs. [snip]

Seems like the person who wrote that message doesn't know what he's talking about.

That is very true. He is clueless and unrepentantly so. His private e-mail to me indicates it in spades. (As well as being rude and insulting for even challenging his claims about the program.)

There's a difference between snake oil and a user who doesn't understand a product.

True. I was not aware that the author of the program had warned against using it as well. Evidently this guy did not read that part as well... --- |"The moral PGP Diffie taught Zimmermann unites all| Disclaimer: | | mankind free in one-key-steganography-privacy!" | Ignore the man | |`finger -l alano@teleport.com` for PGP 2.6.2 key | behind the keyboard.| | http://www.teleport.com/~alano/ | alano@teleport.com |