[48141] in Cypherpunks
Re: Gentlemen do not read each other's mail
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mike Tighe)
Fri Jan 26 10:07:05 1996
From: Mike Tighe <tighe@spectrum.titan.com>
To: mwohler@ix.netcom.com (Marc J. Wohler)
Date: Fri, 26 Jan 1996 08:47:53 -0600 (CST)
Cc: cypherpunks@toad.com
Reply-To: tighe@spectrum.titan.com
In-Reply-To: <199601252343.PAA00884@ix11.ix.netcom.com> from "Marc J. Wohler" at Jan 25, 96 06:45:58 pm
Marc J. Wohler writes:
> "Gentlemen do not read each other's mail."
> Ben Franklin
>
>Original quote by Ben Franklin when the British government published
>(stolen?) private letters of
>John Adams to his wife critical of Franklyn and other members of the
>Continental Congress.
Can you provide a source for this? Franklin was known to use encryption,
and the quote has been attributed to Stimson and no one else for years. I
really doubt Franklin was naive enough to think that the British government
were gentlemanly enough to respect his privacy.
