bear wrote: > > On Fri, 24 Feb 2006, Peter Saint-Andre wrote: > > >> Personally I doubt that anything other than a small percentage of email >> will ever be signed, let alone encrypted (heck, most people on this list >> don't even sign their mail). >> > > I don't think I've said anything here that I will later want to be > able to prove incontrovertibly was said by me. > > In general, signing your mail has a downside in this age of litigous > potential mail recipients, and except when your mail regards the > disposition of assets, no upside. > > In the long run, I think the population of people who want to sign > their mail is about the same as the population of people who want to > post on usenet with their real name and put their street address > and phone number at the bottom of every post. > > Why give the anonymous cowards who are collecting information with > robotic trawlers, whether for spam lists or any other reason, proof > of exactly who you are?
The short answer to your unstated question is: anonymity is not high in my scale of values. The long answer will require some reflection on my part, which I won't post here but at my blog when I have the time. Peter -- Peter Saint-Andre Jabber Software Foundation http://www.jabber.org/people/stpeter.shtml
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