On Sun, Jan 27, 2002 at 09:02:02PM +0000, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: > On Sunday 27 Jan 2002 17:58 pm, Mark Brown wrote: > > On Sun, Jan 27, 2002 at 05:09:57PM +0000, Hereward Cooper wrote: > > > Is there a way of getting the emails that the BTS sends me, > > > encrypted with my GPG? At school they are bastards and randomly > > > check people's emails to see that they are 'work' or 'family' > > > related -- if not they just kick me off the network > > > :( The archives and BTS pages should still be in clean text, but > > > : just the emails > > > encrypted. > > I'd imagine the encryption wouldn't discourage them too much. > > Perhaps you could arrange to read the mail remotely on Debian > > machines or obtain alternative internet access for > > reading/downloading Debian mail? > Hereward isn't _yet_ a developer. Despite packaging stuff and having > it uploaded by sponsors he is stuck in NM hell. Give him a break, > people, he's a good coder and all round good type. He is stuck at an > English public school (read private, fee paying for non-UK types) > and the school can be fascist with their own pupils. They may give > him a hard time for the hell of it. In which case, receiving encrypted mail at this account is about the last thing I would want to do. What do you suppose the school is going to think when one of their pupils suddenly starts receiving all his mail in encrypted format? Why, that he's hiding something, of course... If these people are likely to hassle him for doing Debian-related work from his school account, then using GPG is like painting a bull's-eye on his back. Steve Langasek postmodern programmer
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