Thursday, January 27, 2000, 12:36:56 PM, Sebastian wrote:
> Why is that an absolutely annoying overhead? PGP works best if
> everyone has easy access to your public key and that is the best way
> to do so.
No, it is not the best way to do so. Once they have it they don't need it
again... and again... and again.
This month alone I have generated 522 messages in my private account and
274 in my work accout. That's 796 messages. Wait, more, 38 messages out of
mutt so far this month on my private account. So that is 807 messages (not
counting this one) in 01/2000 alone. I would guess that I've mailed the same
20-30 addresses. That is a *LOT* of duplicated things sent.
> I don't think you have to wait more than a fraction of a second more for
> your mail to download if it contains my public key.
One message, no. I get 300+ a day. That would come out to 90k more.
that is not a "fraction of a second" even on my cablemodem. Furthermore, you
have to think about list servers like this. I run a list with 230 people on
it. Your message hits that server and is duplicated about that many times to
be sent out. That would be an extra 69k *per message* that my server needs to
send out. 230 members is a moderately small list. There are many more that
are much, much larger.
Considering that most people don't *WANT* that data at all and the rest
don't want it repeatedly it is best that you don't pollute their boxes with
your repeatative crap.
> The problem could be solved by the software we are using - software
> wouldn't make our lives easier if we always had to adjust to them.
> What about the other way?
What other way? What my public key? Here:
<http://www.rpglink.com/~morpheus/pgpkey>
Click that. Let's compare. That is 41 bytes compared to your 300+. It
is human readable. It is automated. It is better than what you're
advocating.
> PS: I'm not going to change the way I sign a message, why do you have
> to complain about that?
Wow. You're not going to get along well with most of the internet, are
you? Not even trying to fit in. A proper sig delimiter means that software,
you know, that stuff that is supposed to make life easier for scrubs like you,
knows what to color differently or remote when quoting so you don't have to.
Gee, 20 seconds to change 3 templates to extend the same courtesy we're
extending you and you're too good for that. Beh, go away.
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