Re: list of user-visible goals

Ian Peter writes about payment via email:
> I think it needs to be addressed by the "email" mechanism, because if 
> the medium is unsecure, unreliable, untrustworthy, can make false 
> address claims, or be redirected to somewhere I don't intend it to go 
> (to give a few examples) email cannot be readily used for secure 
> purposes.

Right. But there's nothing special about that particular purpose, is 
there? All of these four would seem to be equivalent wrt. your 
paragraph:

  - writing a love letter to someone other than my wife
  - applying from a new job using my current employer's email system
  - sending a contract to be printed, signed and returned
  - paying powells.com for a couple of books

Arnt