On Sun, Feb 27, 2005 at 05:05:42PM -0600, Gerald V. Livingston II wrote: > <rant> > (see below - I've included everything that my MUA displayed) reading Don't blame us because your MUA is broken. > My system wastes so much time going to the net just to tell me there's an > "Untrusted key from xxx" on list messages it isn't funny. And it's REALLY > annoying when a keyserver is "missing" for some reason and my system sits > on a message until gpg times out waiting for the keyserver to respond. So configure your MUA not to pick up random keys off the 'net if it's that much of a problem. > If there's a list that "requires" use of gpg, fine. Something like > debian-security. But for general discussion lists --- why? So that the identity of the poster can be ascertained by anyone who cares to know. Precisely the same reason why you might use GPG signatures on debian-security. - Matt
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