On Tuesday 01 May 2018 09:13:06 dep wrote:
> On May 1, 2018 11:57 AM, William Morder <doctor_contendo@...> wrote:
> > Look into using email over a secure shell. I had that running a few years
> > ago, but since then I have gone through some changes, and it was too much
> > trouble. However, I do know that it is possible. Of course, your email
> > provider will still have access to some information; otherwise you
> > couldn't use their service.
>
> my issue is with my ISP, not my email provider which is protonmail. and
> it's currently set up such that my ISP gets nothing from my email, and i'm
> not using my ISP's email service, so whether or not i could is immaterial.
>
> this all got started through my interest in setting up a
> protonmail-provided beta application that, when i get it installed and
> configured, will enable me to do all this with kmail as my frontend client.
> among the things into which it devolved are reasons one might want to try
> to secure email, how one-ended encryption is not useful for many purposes,
> the virtues or lack thereof of various package handlers, and now how i
> could do what i'm already successfully doing some other way if i'm willing
> to go to trouble that the current arrangement doesn't require.
>
> all we need is someone to angrily belittle those who have not mastered
> emacs and we'll have the perfect linux mailing list thread!
>
> dep
>
I myself feel that we are fast approaching the Hitler/Nazi threshold. I will 
sound the warning now, in hopes that we might steer round that possibility. 

Bill