On Thu, Apr 13, 2000 at 02:20:26AM -0600, Scott D. Yelich wrote:
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> On Thu, 13 Apr 2000, Chris Green wrote:
> > On Wed, Apr 12, 2000 at 02:05:11PM -0600, Scott D. Yelich wrote:
> > Well I have to admit I have some sympathy with him there, I'd much
> > prefer that people *didn't* post PGP signed messages where it isn't
> > necessary. It's just extra noise that has to be filtered out by some
> > means or other. Why should I have to set up my MUA to handle
> > something that isn't necessary for me - it's similar to HTML in many
> > ways.
>
> How does HTML authenticate you?
>
Does my message *really* sound like that was what I meant? I was
saying that PGP is extra noise in much the same way that HTML is extra
noise.
> Tell me, do people pretend to be you on the net? Do people send mail
> claiming to be from you? Would you be worried if someone sent a death
> threat to someone else and signed it with your name?
>
If they did these things in messages to a mailing list I think it
would both be obvious that it was rubbish and rather unimportant.
Horses for courses, PGP has its place but not on mailing lists for
example.
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