From: address@is.invalid   
      
   Adman,   
      
   > How are you still on XP/OE6? I thought that stuff was rendered unusable   
   > a few years back with new SSL/TLS encryption.   
      
   In regard to newsgroup messages ?    I think that ES has recognised that   
   there is zero reason to encrypt their connections.   Newsgroup posts are   
   public by definition, and there is no mechanism in place to make sure that   
   usernames and/or email adresses cannot be spoofed.   
      
   As for my ISPs email ?   It only switched to a higher encryption at the end   
   of last year, at which moment I wrote a small wrapper using ssleay/libeay to   
   encrypt that connection.   
      
   But the same here, there is no mechanism in place to stop someone from   
   spoofing someone else.   
      
   Regards,   
   Rudy Wieser   
      
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