[57] in WWW Security List Archive
Re: GSS API...
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dave Kristol)
Wed Aug 17 19:45:29 1994
Date: Wed, 17 Aug 94 09:33:00 EDT
From: dmk@allegra.att.com (Dave Kristol)
To: mogens@cs.stanford.edu
Cc: www-security@ns1.rutgers.edu
"Christian L. Mogensen" <mogens@CS.Stanford.EDU> writes:
>
> If I wanted a bitmap I would have asked for a fax. The whole point is
> that I can get text that I can process and munge to my hearts content.
> Besides, assuming I pay the provider for the bitmap, and then pay the
> extra $$ for the bandwidth that this now-rather-massive-book will
> occupy - what is to prevent me running an OCR over the nigh-perfect
> bitmap and extract an ascii file? (If the bitmap is not nigh-perfect
> then I'm not buying it!)
But the ASCII file is not the same presentation format as a nicely typeset
file, although admittedly it contains the information.
>
> PDF may be a better soln for that sort of thing - or better postscript
> viewers (then you can do the funky watermark serial number embedding
> in the printout without affecting the content). (Last month's wired
> if I remember correctly - research by Bell Labs)
For information about document marking, see
http://www.research.att.com/#docmark
There's another paper I'd like to put out there for anonymous FTP, but
there are some questions (ironically enough) about copyright.
>
> But seriously, this probably ought to move to the commerce mailing
> list. Does anyone have a suggestion as to an appropriate mail-list
> address?
Please do move the discussion. Mailing list address is
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David M. Kristol
AT&T Bell Laboratories
