[X4U] list ettiguette faux pas

[Vince Lewis]

On Nov 5, 2007, at 6:18 AM, Jim Robertson wrote:

> On 11/3/07 10:16 AM, "Jim Robertson" <jamesrob at sonic.net> wrote:
>
>> A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
>
> OOPS!
>
> OK, I didn't write that, the listmom's scripts did. But the episode  
> shows
> how far we are from computing as something that requires no more user
> tweaking than the toaster (alleged to be Steve Jobs's quest)
>
> I'm a physician, and I need to deal with HIPAA (Health Insurance  
> Portability
> and Privacy Act), which "offers" steep fines and jail time for  
> people who
> reveal what's called "protected health information." As yet, there  
> are no
> formal "HIPAA Police", but Health Care as an industry is struggling  
> with the
> desires of patients to communicate electronically with their medical  
> care
> providers and the converse.
>
> I've been experimenting with PGP. It works (unfortunately) about as  
> well as
> the Mac/PC commercial where the sunglass-enhanced CIA-types looking  
> over
> PC's shoulder chant repeatedly "cancel or allow" .
>
> The non-text attachment was merely my PGP digital signature, which  
> can't be
> parsed by many recipient email servers (and, as far as I know, by NO  
> webmail
> interfaces).
>
> Jim Robertson
> -- 
>


Check out Thawte. They offer a freemail signing and encryption  
service. It adds a text-based key to your email. Also, dotMac users  
get Apple's version as part of the subscription price.
ciao,
Vince