Re: [SLUG] Re: RFC: SLUG Mailing List FAQ Update

2002-04-28 Thread John Clarke
On Thu, Apr 25, 2002 at 12:05:09AM +1000, Angus Lees wrote: surely signing email is a Good Thing for distributed communication, and thus SLUG should be setting an example and *encouraging* it. I agree, but only if we also encourage uploading keys to a public keyserver. There's no point

Re: [SLUG] Re: RFC: SLUG Mailing List FAQ Update

2002-04-28 Thread Jamie Wilkinson
This one time, at band camp, John Clarke wrote: On Thu, Apr 25, 2002 at 12:05:09AM +1000, Angus Lees wrote: surely signing email is a Good Thing for distributed communication, and thus SLUG should be setting an example and *encouraging* it. I agree, but only if we also encourage uploading

Re: [SLUG] Re: RFC: SLUG Mailing List FAQ Update

2002-04-28 Thread John Clarke
On Mon, Apr 29, 2002 at 12:03:05PM +1000, Jamie Wilkinson wrote: This one time, at band camp, John Clarke wrote: On Thu, Apr 25, 2002 at 12:05:09AM +1000, Angus Lees wrote: surely signing email is a Good Thing for distributed communication, and thus SLUG should be setting an example and

Re: [SLUG] Re: RFC: SLUG Mailing List FAQ Update

2002-04-28 Thread Jamie Wilkinson
This one time, at band camp, John Clarke wrote: Ever since the keysigning in July last year, I've kept a reasonably up to date SLUG keyring at this url: Thanks, I think you've missed my point. There have been posts to this list (and several others to which I'm subscribed) which were signed,

Re: [SLUG] Re: RFC: SLUG Mailing List FAQ Update

2002-04-28 Thread John Clarke
On Mon, Apr 29, 2002 at 01:32:35PM +1000, Jamie Wilkinson wrote: This one time, at band camp, John Clarke wrote: Thanks, I think you've missed my point. There have been posts to this I didn't miss your point, I was merely pointing out that there *is* a Sorry, my misunderstanding. I

Re: [SLUG] Re: RFC: SLUG Mailing List FAQ Update

2002-04-25 Thread David Kempe
but my point is that SLUG should be *encouraging* MIME and PGP. amongst other things, that means NOT recommending against their use.. I think that slug does do that through regular key signings and a few threads on encryption etc - however my take on the whole matter is, hey its a public

[SLUG] Re: RFC: SLUG Mailing List FAQ Update

2002-04-24 Thread Angus Lees
At Tue, 23 Apr 2002 17:01:16 +1000, Jeff Waugh wrote: quote who=Anand Kumria - you mention removing PGP/GPG signatures. Why? I see many complaints about HTML formatted email but I've never seen any about signed email. They barf up quite a few mail programs, make things harder to read,

Re: [SLUG] Re: RFC: SLUG Mailing List FAQ Update

2002-04-24 Thread Jeff Waugh
quote who=Angus Lees don't punish those who do the right thing. (aka don't optimize for the failure case) It's only a recommendation. It's also a pity that we encourage the thoroughly unmodern approach of No HTML Mail, but there's a fair amount of agreement that it's not wanted. One can

[SLUG] Re: RFC: SLUG Mailing List FAQ Update

2002-04-24 Thread Angus Lees
At Thu, 25 Apr 2002 09:45:04 +1000, Jeff Waugh wrote: quote who=Angus Lees don't punish those who do the right thing. (aka don't optimize for the failure case) It's only a recommendation. [...] One can always choose to ignore the recommendation. but my point is that SLUG should be