Hello Nick,
Thanks to you and Brian for your input.
NA> Freeware or Payware? PGP is available in both flavours and in versions
NA> 6.5.8 and 7.0.4. What are your security needs? Do you currently have a
NA> Firewall? If not, be advised that PGP 7.0.4 has a very good rules-based
NA> Firewall along with an IDS (Intrusion Detection System), but they are only
NA> available in the payware version.
I'm mainly playing with it for now, so I'll stick to freeware. My
security needs aren't very high at the moment, but I expect them to
increase before long. I do have a firewalls in place. I just got
everyone at work on e-mail about 18 months ago (I'm considered the
resident "computer genius", which is pretty scary, considering how
little I know), and they're finally starting to make good use of it.
Since our head office and our operations are about 400km apart,
there's a lot of potential for e-mail use there. So far, I haven't
worried a lot about security - we don't transmit anything that's
really sensitive or that would be of much use to outsiders, and,
frankly, few, if any, of the staff currently have the computer skills
to get past the most elementary precautions. However, I expect both
the skill level and the sensitivity of the material to increase, so I
figure it's time to look into beefing up security, hopefully without
overwhelming people with complexity.
NA> Good choice of Mail Client BTW. ;o) At this moment, there is no PGP Plugin
NA> for any of the 7.x versions, freeware or payware. However, from what I've
NA> read, there is a current problem with the PGP Plugin (which *had* worked
NA> nicely with both NAI and the CKT builds of PGP) surfacing in the latest
NA> Beta's. I see you are using Beta 7. :o(
I've been using The Bat for a couple of years now, and I'm extremely
happy with it. (I'm actually only using the beta on the office
computer, the home computer is still on 1.51).
NA> -=N.J. Andriash | Vancouver, B.C. Canada=-
I see we're practically neighbours, at least compared to many of the
others on this list (I'm in Edmonton).
Thanks again for the input and I'll check out the PGP list.
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Best regards,
Shauna mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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