symmetric encryption to multiple recipients // multiple encrypted packets ?

[David Shaw]

On Tue, Oct 12, 2004 at 10:05:17AM -0700, vedaal at hush.com wrote:
> if someone wants to sign and symmetrically encrypt the same message to
> different recipients,
> [who don't like to carry their secret keys around ;-)], 
> 
> and doesn't want all the recipients to share the same passphrase,
> 
> one can, of course, simply encrypt each message separately and send it
> separately, 
> 
> but is it possible to do in gnupg by using multiple symmetrically encrypted
> packets, each one with its own passphrase ?

GnuPG (1.4) can read such a message, but will not generate it.

David