Subj : Re: login trouble
To   : Leonard Erickson
From : Darren Gibbs
Date : Mon Oct 23 2000 10:26 pm

 LE> Yes, it says "encrypted". And for as long as I've been in Fidonet,
 LE> there have been sysops who treared encoded as encrypted and refuse to
 LE> pass such mail.

UUEncoding is not encryption.

 LE> Either no one has ever filed a PC about it, or the *Cs have ruled
 LE> that they are allowed to do so.

That's because most *C's know better. Anyone who ruled UUEncoding "encruption" 
and decided a policy complaint based on it would be laughed out of the position 
by the next level in the chain so fast their head would spin. I'd certainly 
replace any NC in my region who did so - simply because UUencoding is simply 
and easily reversed by anyone in the message chain over whose system the 
message transits.

In fact, uuencoding of binaries was the main reason the public fido <-> 
internet gateways closed here in Zone 3. Once the internet started being byte 
charged, so many people were using it to send themselves large binaries that 
the gateway operators couldn't afford it any more.

DaZZa

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