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Re: First general purpose unmoderated newsgroup for Debian



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Craig Jackson <cjackson@localsurface.com> writes:

> My own idea is that PGP/GPG could save us all from spam and SMTP
> messages being clear text in one fell swoop. If everyone encrypted their
> email using GPG/PGP and refused to accept unencrypted email or mail not
> encrypted with their public key, spammers would have a heck of a time
> tracking all of those public keys then have to use a few CPU cycles to
> encrypt before sending, not to mention a few million keys to juggle.

Most people don't encrypt mail with GPG, though they do sign with it.
I usually see GPG-encryption in IM.  Encryption wouldn't work for
mailing lists, either, though signing does.

> And surely the enduser PGP/GPG software could be made easy enough to
> use for the average Joe -- as in find the recipient's key, encrypt
> and send-- doh.

It already is.

> Why do we need SPF or Madrid? For seamlessness? Heck with that.
> PGP/GPG would help to actually fix a problem rather than patch one.

No kidding.
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