Re: CJR returned to sender

At 6:35 AM 10/25/95, Timothy C. May wrote:
>
>(* Hal Abelson of MIT says there are possible export problems with the MIT
>Press book on PGP, and MIT dropped plans for a version in a special OCR
>font. So, I agree that _some_ books cross the line and look like pure
>software. However, I continue to maintain that a badly-printed barcode is
>just a joke, nothing more.)

Brian LaMacchia sent me e-mail saying the MIT book _was_ published with the
OCR font as originally planned. No response to their CJR request, submitted
in Jan or Feb.

(I spoke to Hal Abelson at the CFP Conference in Feb, and that's when I got
the impression the OCR font had been dropped. Apparently not.)

--Tim May

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   At 6:35 AM 10/25/95, Timothy C. May wrote:
   >
   >(* Hal Abelson of MIT says there are possible export problems with the MIT
   >Press book on PGP, and MIT dropped plans for a version in a special OCR
   >font. So, I agree that _some_ books cross the line and look like pure
   >software. However, I continue to maintain that a badly-printed barcode is
   >just a joke, nothing more.)

   Brian LaMacchia sent me e-mail saying the MIT book _was_ published with the
   OCR font as originally planned. No response to their CJR request, submitted
   in Jan or Feb.

[Blatant plug for MIT Press...]

For reference, the title of the book is "PGP: Source Code and
Internals", ISBN 0-262-24039-4, hardcover, $60.00.  There are links to
the MIT Press pages from my keyserver home page
(http://www-swiss.ai.mit.edu/~bal/keyserver.html), or you can go to MIT
Press's site (http://www-mitpress.mit.edu/) and look under
Books/Computer Science.  Orders accepted over the net using either HTML
forms (SSL) or e-mail (PGP).

MIT Press is also selling "MIT PGP" T-Shirts, but I don't have pricing
or size information on them yet.  They have the logo from the book cover
on the front & back.  Front says "Mind your own business," back has a
copy of MIT Press's PGP public key (in ASCII-armored form).

					--bal