Am 2008-05-20 19:48:46, schrieb Twayne: > IMO it's pretty much a waste of time and ether to be bothering with > PGP or any such cert-based methods in a newsgroup. And the few others
I send out per day over 150 messages mostly going to developers lists
and they may be sensibel sourcecodes inside or even comments.
So if I do not send GPG signed messages WHO can verify, they the code
I have send was REALY from me?
> in other groups who do so usually know enough to include the proper
> format so that it won't show up an attachment.
MOST mail clients AND usenet readers show up the right thing. You have
only the problem because you are using a mail client form an incompetent
manufacturer which WANT to catch all you have written by indexing your
messages and send it to a cental server...
Hey, there went some realy big threads in german forums about this
privacy violation... Imagine you are working on a new invetion and want
to setup a patent on it...
Now M$ know about your work and patent it before you...
This is called Industry-Spionage.
> used, say, PGP, to make it look like just another blank post with an
> attachment from her and it actually turns out to be have a malicious
> palyload, well, ... . There is a very good and relevant reason that I
GPG signed messages can not be forged without showing tonns of errors...
So if you install the GPG-Add-On for your Microsoft Outlock Excess you
can verify (automaticaly) before opening opening the messages it comes
REALY from me.
> read posts AND e-mails as 7-bit text only; it's called common sense.
My messages are ALWAYS 7-bit if I write in english. Otherwise they are
using iso-8859-1, iso-8859-15 (german with Euro) or maybe iso-10646-1
(utf-8).
> Allowing a blank e-mail with an attachment to appear is a great way
> to make sure the mainstream of users ignore reading your posts. Which I
> now again will do, my curiousity now sated.
Fortunately I do not filter all incoming mesages to /dev/null and so I
have found lot of messages from peoples using Windows and asking about
this GPG (GNU Privacy Guard) stuff and HOW to use it on Windows...
Unfortunatley I have no clue HOW to install this stuff under Windows and
I was only able to send the links to the Websites where you can download
it...
...and of course Free-Of-Charge!
And as I have allready written in apreviously message, peoples sending
valid signed messages will bypass all of my spamfilters without any
waiting...
Maybe you should look into it too...
Thanks, Greetings and nice Day
Michelle Konzack
Systemadministrator
24V Electronic Engineer
Tamay Dogan Network
Debian GNU/Linux Consultant
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