Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Mailing list and PGP/MIME

2008-05-29 Thread Wolf Canis
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»Q« wrote:
 Wolf Canis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 
 Would know a message reach the ML with my Name but no signature or a
 different signature, could one relatively be sure about the fact that
 this particular message is not from the original Wolf Canis.
 
 No, we'd have absolutely no way of telling whether or not it came from
 the original Wolf Canis.  You could post using your usual signature,
 telling us the other one wasn't from you, but we'd have nothing to go
 on but your word.  I think most of us /would/ take your word for it,
 but I doubt the signatures make a difference in that.
 

That would mean that Wolf Canis is a bad boy and would have more
than one signature, one for normal use and one or more for evil use.
OK, if it's that what you mean, I understand it that way, then you
are right. But I'm pretty sure that, if Wolf Canis comes with
different signatures then it would be at least questionable and
would probably lead to a ban, I think.

W. Canis
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[gentoo-user] Re: Mailing list and PGP/MIME

2008-05-29 Thread »Q«
On Thu, 29 May 2008 09:35:39 +0200
Wolf Canis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 »Q« wrote:
  Wolf Canis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

  Would know a message reach the ML with my Name but no signature or
  a different signature, could one relatively be sure about the fact
  that this particular message is not from the original Wolf
  Canis.  
  
  No, we'd have absolutely no way of telling whether or not it came
  from the original Wolf Canis.  You could post using your usual
  signature, telling us the other one wasn't from you, but we'd have
  nothing to go on but your word.  I think most of us /would/ take
  your word for it, but I doubt the signatures make a difference in
  that. 
 
 That would mean that Wolf Canis is a bad boy and would have more
 than one signature, one for normal use and one or more for evil use.
 OK, if it's that what you mean, I understand it that way, then you
 are right. But I'm pretty sure that, if Wolf Canis comes with
 different signatures then it would be at least questionable and
 would probably lead to a ban, I think.

I'd support a ban in either that case (you pretending to be more than
one poster) or the other (another poster pretending to be you).  But in
neither case do the signatures give us any more information than we
would otherwise have had about whether there's an imposter or not.

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[gentoo-user] Re: Mailing list and PGP/MIME

2008-05-27 Thread »Q«
Wolf Canis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 Would know a message reach the ML with my Name but no signature or a
 different signature, could one relatively be sure about the fact that
 this particular message is not from the original Wolf Canis.

No, we'd have absolutely no way of telling whether or not it came from
the original Wolf Canis.  You could post using your usual signature,
telling us the other one wasn't from you, but we'd have nothing to go
on but your word.  I think most of us /would/ take your word for it,
but I doubt the signatures make a difference in that.

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