NODE cbf3d735Net Day 96 and AOL
Bill Stewart <stewarts@ix.netcom.com>Sat, 9 Mar 1996 17:00:43 +0800
Heard on the radio today that AOL will be donating service for a year
to the first 2000 schools that ask for it, as part of their contribution
to Net Day. (For those of you not from California, an industry-led group
has been coordinating volunteers and materials to wire up schools to the net;
tomorrow's effort will be installing inside wiring so that schools that
have computers will be able to get hooked up.)
Does anybody know if there's an AOL-friendly version of PGP that we can
donate to the schools, to help teach kids about proper encryption?
If nothing else, some of the cut&paste interfaces will do, I suppose.
AOL is fairly friendly about pseudonyms, and remailer support is
a no-brainer except for documentation readily understandable to kids.
Bill
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NODE 9a5e83e3Re: Net Day 96 and AOL
Roger Williams <roger@coelacanth.com>Sun, 10 Mar 1996 01:34:46 +0800
>>>>> Bill Stewart <stewarts@ix.netcom.com> writes:
> Does anybody know if there's an AOL-friendly version of PGP that
> we can donate to the schools...
Private Idaho is probably the best bet for AOL email. So far as I
know, only cut-n-paste shells work with the wacky AOL mail editor.
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