[free-sklyarov] Tracking who is on the free-sklyarov email list

[Jeme A Brelin]

On Fri, 9 Aug 2002, Richard M. Smith wrote:
> I find HTML email extremely useful for archiving news articles from
> Web sites.  I have a couple of gigabytes of archived articles in
> Outlook. For most other uses, I prefer plain text email.

Well, while this is extraordinarily off-topic, I'm going to toss in a few
cents.

First, are you simply emailing the HTML from the websites to yourself?  I
wouldn't call that HTML mail because it's not correspondence.  It's more
like an attachment.

Second, it's utterly useless to archive news articles from web sites until
those articles are accompanied by gpg (or similar) signatures that can
ensure the authorship or publication origin of the work.

I can mock up any old trash in the CNN template and try to pass it off as
"censored news that CNN removed from the site after one hour!"  It's
worthless.

Digital signatures should be required for digital publication.  This would
ensure both the proper credit (for those to whom such things matter) and
provide insurance against modification against the author's will (the
whole reason we, as a public, support copyrights).

J.
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