-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 >Believe it or not Ted Nelson had a similar idea when he invented Xanadu >Hypertext. He was obsessed by copyright and the notion that it would be >wrong to copy someone else's text to another machine, hence the need for >links.
Well, yes, but he's never been able to implement it, despite decades of trying. (I've known Ted since 1972, so I watched a lot of it happen.) Xanadu was always envisioned as a monolithic system that didn't scale over large numbers of machines or wide geographic areas. It's really interesting as a conceptual design, but the closest working implentation is the WWW and that, to put it mildly, left out a lot. On the other hand, MIME can do multipart messages consisting of a sequence of signed bodies right now, and most MUAs display them pretty well. I've never seen anything create one other than a list manager like Mailman or mj2 adding a signature part after a signed body. R's, John -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.21 (FreeBSD) iEYEARECAAYFAlIucekACgkQkEiFRdeC/kXrfgCfYFyXhGaXoIKHiuJg1bYns/sf 6JcAn2qSoWfT/9+9LadEUbG6oHf5YvPy =RwJq -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
