Re: mailing list pgp signatures...

Steven W. Orr wrote:

Sometimes people do things on the net that are considered to be minor
violations of social protocols. This is all a part of being civilized. Posting
html, top posting, not reducing quoted text, these are all examples of how
people can get legitimately irritated. Other examples include things like
having Subject lines that say "Help" or "Hi" when they're trying to get
assistance with a video card that's not talking well with F11.

But what G did was much worse. He insisted on putting a little bomb in his
mail that causes a number of us to just plain hang for periods that are
measured in minutes, not just once, but for every message that he sends and
for every time that we try to read it. Having a lack of respect for other
people's time is way high up on my list of things that make me go out of my
way to resort to blacklisting.

You know, there is a simple fix to this - someone that has G's
public key could upload it to a keyserver. <evil>Now, if someone
wanted to be nasty, they could upload a fake public key with his
email address. Then if there is anything to SPAMmers mining the
keyservers for e-mail addresses, the would get the flood of SPAM
anyway.</evil>

Mikkel
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