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From: name removed as this is forwarded without permission
Subject: Re: PGP
Date: Wed, 06 Apr 94 09:17:33 PDT
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Date: Wed, 06 Apr 94 09:17:33 PDT
From: name removed as this is forwarded without permission
To: "Robert A. Hayden" <hayden@*******.MANKATO.MSUS.EDU>
Subject: Re: PGP

Well, your system sends 'ASCII', while LISTSERV uses 'EBCDIC',
and some users translate the received-text back to 'ASCII'.
That's *TWO* translations, with a large leap-of-faith that
the two translations are 1-to-1.

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