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On Friday 20 June 2003 10:21, you wrote: > My mail is parked in an IMAP4 server* I might go to that. One day. > Hmm do Doctors typically spool of a copy of all emails to a > safe archive No. The NHS network may well be retaining a copy of every byte that goes through it though, probably at health authority or Trust level. Not actually something that I am in favour of or heartened by. > no protocol for catching false positives, which might be > important in a medical context. I can see us heading for an access token system where the access token is either a _registered_ email address, which amounts to a whitelist, or is a magic number that gives someone the right to get their mail into my clinical inbox. The magic needs to be something slightly cryptographically sophisticated, to foil dictionary attacks, but to b easy enough that people can write a token down and then type it in, or scan it off a bar code (pity about the Cue Cat). -- From the Linux sofa or garden swing of Dr Adrian Midgley http://www.defoam.net/ -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG Mail majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxx with "unsubscribe list" in the message body to unsubscribe.