On Mon, 2003-08-04 at 16:18, Alan Connor wrote: > 1) Neither I nor anyone I know cares if you are who you say you are or not. > ( In fact, someone could forge your PGP sig because most people don't > have the software, and do you MORE harm that way. How would you prove > which of two nearly simultaneous posts with the EXACT same PGP sig on them > was the real one. ) >
You do care if someone else pretends to be you and makes you look bad though, don't you? It's really not hard to do. You do not understand how pgp works. Only one of those signatures can be valid. > 2) They are a an extreme violation of netiquette > Please point me to the rfc for netiquette. There is no "one true netiquette" > > 3) They are a waste of bandwidth on several levels this is a matter of opinion > 4) They make posts hard to read and ugly. only if you use a really broken mailer or the sender is not using pgp mime. and even if they aren't, it's ~5 extra lines of easily visually filterable info -Mark -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
