Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org> writes: > On Mon, Jan 27, 2003 at 02:51:39PM +0000, debian parisc wrote: >> Friends, >> >> forgive me for my ignorance, but I see a lot of emails on this list with >> PGP signatures. Exactly what purpose does it serve having PGP as part of >> your signature? They just look like a string of characters that could have >> been made up to me. >> >> It maybe because I receive most of the emails from this list in windows95 >> (I'm at work), that they have no significance. > > That last sounds about right. Good mail clients can verify the > signatures automatically. It doesn't really matter what OS he's using. GnuPG has a Windows port available, and even Outlook Express has a GnuPG plugin available, if anyone is foolish enough to actually use that email client. Of course, none of this is supported by default in Windows... -- My secret to happiness... is that I have a heart of a 12-year-old boy. It's over here in a jar. Would you like to see it?
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