compatibility with future PGP

Derek Atkins warlord at MIT.EDU
Tue May 24 12:27:45 PDT 1994


> 1) You have a friend with an old PGP who wants to send you mail and
>    who can't get a new PGP. Old PGP will read old PGP generated files,
>    but new will not read old.

Wrong, Perry.  Go read the announcement again.  2.6 will read old
messages, but after sept 1 it will start generating incompatible
messages that old versions cannot read. 

-derek







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