On 2006-02-24, 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).
That's at least partly because too many mailing lists either reject signed messages out of hand or, worse, have subscribers who use providers that reject signed messages and then spam you with their idiotic bounce messages. Keeping track of which lists allow signed email and which don't is impractical if you subscribe to hundreds of lists, so the simple thing is to tick the "don't sign" box on list messages. In this case, since Peter's message was signed, I know this list allows signatures. So I'll sign this message. But the signature will be of limited utility, as not one of the several email addresses on my signature is a match for the email address I am sending this from. Again, lists being what they are, I use a different address for most lists and my PGP key would become absurd if I added several hundred addresses to it. I personally would prefer to sign every email I send. I'd also prefer to encrypt all non-public messages. I am fully competent in the use of the current technology, but it turns out to be not practical to use. Greg
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