At 18:38 2/14/2000 -0800, Tim May wrote:
>Yet another wrongheaded interpretation of "trust." Insofar as key signings
>go, political views are not important. Golda Meier could have signed the
>Ayotallah Khomeini's key with complete equinimity. Think about it.
Right. This shouldn't need to be explained, of course, but there's not a
good institutional memory here, at least not in web-archive form.
One useful analogy might be Time magazine's "Man of the Year," designed to
highlight the most important person, or thoughts along those lines. Hitler
was it once. Time mag is not endorsing him by dubbing him that; neither are
you necessarily endorsing someone's views when signing their key.
At least the analogy might be useful to newcomers.
-Declan
(who tried to get the Internet as Man of the Year in '97 but got outvoted.
sigh.)
