[Beowulf] Apologies for the spam/virus yesterday

[Chris Samuel]

On Friday 10 November 2006 03:37, Michael Will wrote:

> Completely usel.ess unless you plan to litigate and have to prove
> authorship

Certainly for me being able to demonstrate authorship and/or modification of a 
message or file is useful in its own right, I don't understand why utility 
should be considered conditional upon legal action.

E.g. LISTSERV used to (may still do) convert tabs to spaces in messages 
passing through it, so if someone creates a file or patch where tabs are 
significant and OpenPGP/MIME signs it and sends it to a LISTSERV list then 
the signature would fail and the recipients will know the something is wrong 
with it.

Chris
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 Christopher Samuel - (03)9925 4751 - VPAC Deputy Systems Manager
 Victorian Partnership for Advanced Computing http://www.vpac.org/
 Bldg 91, 110 Victoria Street, Carlton South, VIC 3053, Australia

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