On Thu, 2012-05-10 at 18:57 +0100, Tony van der Hoff wrote: > On 10/05/12 18:25, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > > 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. > > I've learned a lot about GPG signing during the last few days. I can see > there are benefits where the recipient needs to be absolutely certain > that the sender is known to him. > > That is certainly not the way mailing lists work, so causing a block of > some 400 characters to be sent to each and every subscriber is pure > self-indulgence, on the scale of insisting on sending HTML-formatted > mail. On balance, I think I prefer the latter. > > I have come to the conclusion that a GPG signature in these > circumstances says more about the sender's sense of self-importance than > anything else.
I'm uncertain if I should answer off-list or not ;). Because there's such a tendency to get mails as confident as possible, I thought about talking about psychotherapy ;). Not for me, I'm hopeless. I don't care about 400 characters more or less. I also prefer a funny Iconic or HTML to a signing. :D Regards, Ralf -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1336673852.5199.35.camel@precise
