Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2003 11:55:38 -0700 (PDT)
From: N Lynch <sfbookfan at yahoo.com>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: A Security Question
To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>

--- ronkean at juno.com wrote:
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> colonial America mail was mostly handled by private
> means.  Private mail
> service was thought to be unreliable, and people
> worried that their mail
> could be opened and read while in transit.  So the
> Post Office was
> established as a government monopoly for handling
> regular mail.  With a
> government agency handling mail, private snooping
> was less of a worry,
> but Thomas Jefferson, even when he was President,
> would sometimes
> encipher letters sent via the Post Office, just as
> some people today
> encipher their email using PGP.
>
> Ron Kean

Since the Post Office hasn't been part of the federal
government for a number of years now, is private
snooping more of a proglem?

Nicki

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