Netscape

Tom Weinstein tomw at netscape.com
Wed Jul 24 21:46:24 PDT 1996


The Deviant wrote:
> 
> I would have suggested even being as nice as "We'll do the same as MIT
> does with PGP's distrobution, or RSA does with RSAREF (just so you'll
> know, RSA's FTP basicly has a readme file that says "the files in
> subdir of a dir thats -r+x to you, so if you're a citizen go to
> dist/usaRANDOM_NUMBER_HERE", thats it).  Then make them explain why
> Netscape should be any different.

MIT reportedly has a letter stating that their systems is okay.  The
state department wouldn't give us such a letter because they were
"currently reevaluating their guidelines", or some such thing.  We
convinced them to give us temporary permission for this system until
they had finalized their new policy.

-- 
You should only break rules of style if you can    | Tom Weinstein
coherently explain what you gain by so doing.      | tomw at netscape.com






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