On Sat, Aug 02, 2003, Shachar Shemesh wrote about "Re: [Key Signing] Problems Downloading Some of the Keys":Yes, but it is impolite to force me to publisice my key. I may or may not choose to do so.
In the future, please don't upload other people's keys to keyservers. Whether someone's key is published or not should be up to that someone to decide. It is considered impolite to upload someone elses' key.
This is silly. If your public key is public, *anybody* could upload it to a keyserver anytime in the future. One of the 25 people who just signed your key might choose to upload your key when they're done. In fact, it's the most obvious thing for them to do.
I find it very strange that someone might not want his public key to beIf I have a seperate public key for friends or if I don't want spammers to use my gpg email are two random examples.
public. Could you give us a scenario why this might make sense?
Think of it this way - you also know my email address. Still, you don't go around publicising that, do you?
Shachar
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