Subject: e-mail privacy

From: "Diane A. Walsh" <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 4 Apr 1997 13:17:22 -0500 (EST)

Could you explain to as to just how private is e-mail?  Can't someone
else read e-mail addressed to me?  A prompt response would be most
appreciated.  Thank you - please respond to [email-masked]

diane  a. walsh

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From: R R Neuswanger <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 4 Apr 1997 15:56:48 -0500

I believe the standard plain-English answer is
that an email is a postcard -- if not, like your post
and all the others here including this one, a piece of
paper on a bulletin board. Never write anything in such
a place that you have *any* doubt about.
	There are horror stories, but they're pretty
much off-topic here, I think. Ask your guru.

                R.R. Neuswanger, Ph.D., NRA-L
                 Balto-Fennic, Germanic, Romance
AcqBibSuppProj (ABSP)                 There are no good spammers.
Library of Congress                   Dead ones just dry up and
Washington, DC 20540-4120             stink less.
[email-masked]            I speak for me.Only.

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From: [email-masked] (Sven Guckes)
Date: 8 Apr 1997 19:56:37 GMT

[email-masked] (Diane A. Walsh):
> how private is e-mail?

As private as normal mail.
Think about it!

Sven [pgp!]