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Hello Wilfred!

 WvV> [...] Fidonet messages get published on the internet all
 WvV> over the place, so that seemed like the correct thing to
 WvV> do (as spam prevention)...

It's really too bad that somewhere along the way when FTN and  
BBS messaging was purely direct B2B [bbs to bbs] and  
represented snoop-free environments that some form of  
encryption wasn't considered as part of the message format  
later when internet was becoming the defacto transport  
mechanism and "porting" to nntp-style bases and opening message  
bases with open-web acesss was simply "fun" to do.  Keeping  
content of the messages out of the reach of skimmers and non- 
bbs folk would have been wise.
-- 
  ../|ug

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