On Thu, May 10, 2012 at 07:25:39PM +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > On Thu, 2012-05-10 at 18:40 +0200, Claudius Hubig wrote: > > Hello Tony, > > > > Tony van der Hoff <t...@vanderhoff.org> wrote: > > > What is the benefit of such a signature? > > > > Those who know him now can verify the signature. In addition, if at > > any later stage someone else claims to have posted this message, the > > OP can prove that it was indeed him who posted it. Everybody else > > interested in either the OP or the message can also verify the > > signature (though that might require some work to, for example, meet > > the OP personally). > > And what is the benefit of this on an open mailing list? > To ensure that somebody called or didn't call somebody else names, gave > right or wrong information? IMO this is infantile. Don't get me wrong! > I'm not against signing, if other people wish to do. It anyway is > senseless. >
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