Hi Maggie Meister, > <snipping the ginormous key block & related sig>
:-) Yes, it is a lot of space. > Thank you for bringing this question to the group. I have been > following this thread avidly since I have never understood the > PGP and related encryption methods and I have some questions and > an observation. I am sorry, but I cannot answer most of your questions, as I am myself struggling through these things. That message with the PGP keyblock even wasn't correct; the signature macro should not be visible. In fact, I don't know really how to create a predefined template for new messages with macros in it and I neither do know how really to call the footer file with the text and keyblock. It was in the message by unexpected luck, but I did not know how I did it. > 1. I largely use text and not html to communicate. Using GnuPG > seems to take up lots of space. Do I remember correctly that > proper email etiquette advocated no more than 6 lines in a sig, > or, is that just a piece of the past that just stuck in my > memory? That etiquette seems to have been 'disappeared'; at least, many messages I get, both private and commercial have big footers of different kind. Some with lots of text, others with pictures. > 2. How will correspondents using smart phones manage this > considering the screen size? Dunno. > 3. For correspondents who don't use a dedicated email program > such as TheBat! handle this if they are using web mail? Dunno. > 4. When replying without trimming in an email thread, this could > potentially take to not only scroll through, but to even find the > actual email amidst all the other security characters? May be possible, but not a problem I met yet. > 5. Are these questions also relevant to PGP or only GnuPG? Dunno. I simply choose GnuPG because of Maxim's advise... even without asking why he advised that one. :-) > Isn't choosing VPN more effective w/o having to use the keys and > the added issue of having to convince other people to adopt this > system in order to communicate with me? These are the ones who > say, why should I do this, I've got nothing to hide? For the VPN possibility I got offered, a registration at some webpage for it is necesary and I do not want that. Don't know if it is possible without a third party. Sorry, I'm not a big help. -- Mit freundlichen Grüßen, Gunivortus ________________________________________________ Current version is 7.1 | 'Using TBUDL' information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
