[ih] email at scale

Larry Sheldon LarrySheldon at cox.net
Mon May 14 09:44:00 PDT 2012


On 5/14/2012 11:17 AM, Larry Sheldon wrote:
> On 5/14/2012 8:24 AM, Dave Crocker wrote:
>
>> A common view is that good security cannot be easy to use. It might even
>> be true.
>
> There is one of the "rugs", in my humble opinion.

ruBs!  There is one of the ruBs, in my humble opinion.

[Note:  I have never in 73 years told anybody I could type.]

> The bigger one, in my mind, is that I can not imagine such a system that
> will operate securely and dependably without information about and
> provided by the destination entity with the absolute assurance that the
> destination provided the information, AND THAT the information provided
> is honest, accurate, and timely.


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                                         of System Administrators:
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