Re: First general purpose unmoderated newsgroup for Debian
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Svenn Are Bjerkem <svenn@bjerkem.de> writes:
> On Friday 03 September 2004 19:11, Paul Johnson wrote:
>> People sign their messages on Usenet as well. If you don't like
>> PGP or GPG, that's a personal problem that you need to take care of
>> on your own.
>
> Oh, so it is a personal problem... Well, I am taking care of it: I am
> asking those who do to stop.
That's not a solution, that's making yourself look like an ass.
> But they don't seem to be willing to listen, or even try to
> understand the problem they may cause by their arrogant behaviour.
No. People aren't willing to listen to you because you are
demonstrating a tremendous lack of clue in the matter, and insist on
dictating your uneducated opinion on everybody else.
> Why do you need to sign all your mails to a mailing list? Are you
> afraid that we wouldn't take you seriously unless you did so?
I'll just hand the cluebat off to Karsten for this one, since he's
answered it quite nicely already from the last time some pinhead got
upset at established standards.
http://kmself.home.netcom.com/Rants/gpg-signed-mail.html
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