On Fri, Aug 01, 2003 at 10:57:25AM +0200, debian-user-request@lists.debian.org wrote:
> > From hastings@bmail.kek.jp Fri Aug 1 01:30:57 2003
> >
> >
> > * Alan Connor <alanconnor@earthlink.net> [030801 14:17]:
> > >
> > > Please don't clutter your posts with pgp signatures.
> >
> > Clutter? Says he with the five line signature!
>
> Yes. You are partly right and I have corrected my sig. Thank you.
>
> But you are also partly wrong, because my sig at least conveys
> potentially useful information.
Useful? I don't know, it conveys your opinion, of course I could argue
that that isn't even potentially useful ;-)
> > > Most of us don't have the software to interpret them
> >
> > Speak for yourself.
>
> Well, very few people use pgp signatures on the list.....
>
> Some may HAVE the software, but have the good taste not to use it when
> there is no point.
You are right there. Are you equally bothered if the signature ends up
in an attachment?
I can't help thinking of something Phil Zimmermann mentioned in some
text I read (I think he was the author). Some governments re trying to
ban electronic encryption that they don't have a back door to so he
encouraged everyone to use it, simply due to the practical difficulties
with prohibiting something that everyone is doing. One might see signing
emails as taking a stand for strong, cheap electronic encryption
available to the masses.
/M
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