On 9/9/2013 4:09 PM, Brian E Carpenter wrote: > On 10/09/2013 01:58, Ted Lemon wrote: > ... >> Seriously, this perfectly illustrates the reason why PGP hasn't seen >> widespread deployment: it doesn't address a use case that anybody >> understands or cares about, > > True story: Last Saturday evening I was sitting waiting for a piano > recital to start, when I overheard the person sitting behind me (who > I happen to know is a retired chemistry professor) say to his > companion "Email is funny, you know - I've just discovered that when > you forward or reply to a message, you can just change the other > person's text by typing over it! You'd have thought they would > make that impossible." > > Yes, they should have made that impossible. > > Brian
Classic! Its humiliating to think that there are tendencies to "restructure" quoted text just to fit the common dimensions, i.e., 80x25, look pretty -- the integrity was long gone! -- HLS
