FIDOnet encryption (or lack thereof)

[Jim Cannell]

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In a msg on <Sep 30 12:15>, mnemonic at eff.org of 1:216/21 writes:

 m> From  owner-cypherpunks at toad.com
 m> From: mnemonic at eff.org (Mike Godwin)
 m> To:   mdiehl at triton.unm.edu (J. Michael Diehl)
 m> Date: Thu, 30 Sep 1993 11:45:09 -0400 (EDT)
 m> Cc:   yerazunis at aidev.enet.dec.com, cypherpunks at toad.com

 m> Well, there's no doubt that users of his system can agree to 
 m> allow the sysop to read their mail. But what about people 
 m> whose mail passes *through* his system on the way to somewhere 
 m> else?

 m> He has no agreement with them.


FidoNet policy has a statement allowing monitoring of all intransit
mail.  I guess I'm going to have to dig my copy of Policy out of the
archives to post the relevant paragraphs.

This is a very shortsighted policy.

Although financial restraints have curtailed my operations here making
a lot of this moot, my own policy allows all users and passthru mail to be
encrypted.  I neither monitor nor censor.



Jim
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