PGP Sigs on the Usenet (was: Re: Best practises for killfiling)

From: Alan Connor (zzzzzz_at_xxx.yyy)
Date: 10/29/04 

Date: Fri, 29 Oct 2004 02:20:38 GMT

On 28 Oct 2004 17:09:01 GMT, Christopher Nehren
<apeiron@comcast.net> wrote:

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> I'm starting to learn about Mutt's scoring functionality,
> and I've=20 got a killfile-esque setup working, but I'd like
> to know if it's the=20 simplest and easiest to understand
> method. I've searched about this=20 on Google first through the
> web and then through Google groups; it's=20 interesting to note
> that most of the posts that I've found have been=20 about Sven
> Guckes' killfile fetish. :) Here's the relevant lines from=20
> my config files, plus some examples:
>
> source /usr/home/apeiron/.killfile set score_threshold_read=3D0
> folder-hook . "push \"l ~n 1\n\""
>
> And ~/.killfile contains this line first:
>
> score "~f ." 1
>
> and then lines like these:
>
> score "~s \"boring subject\" f troll@example.invalid " -1
>
> Best regards, and thanks for your time. --=20 I abhor a system
> designed for the "user", if that word is a coded pejorative
> meaning "stupid and unsophisticated". -- Ken Thompson - Unix is
> user friendly. However, it isn't idiot friendly.
>

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You start by killfiling people who clutter up their posts with
crap like the above.

Done.

Except I do killfiling a particular way: I will give you a score
of 555, which tells me that you are one of these rude bozos
that can't tell the Usenet from an important exchange of mails
with your banker or lawyer, who thinks we are all fools who
don't know how easy it is to create a key-pair under any name
you want (a dozen so that they can each sign each other...)

This way I can spot your posts and jump in and remind you and
everyone else that they shouldn't be cluttering up their posts
with anything.

No one cares whether you have a key-pair under a particular name.
No one is going to go to the trouble of researching the key
you are using, and if they don't, there is no point in it.

And killfiling me won't change anything. That won't prevent
me from seeing and responding to your posts.

Perhaps 1 in 10,000 people use PGP sigs on the Usenet, and in
almost every case, it is because they have so verbally abused
and harassed others that their victims resorted to forging
posts from them to get back at them.

You may as well just have *** tatooed on your forehead.

Or CLUELESS, if you think that your PGP sig proves anything
other than you have a key-pair in that name.

Do you understand? You may as well just paste the same PGP
sig garbage on every post, because no one *cares*.

And yes, we all know that you can just drop the PGP sig and
troll at will. We aren't stupid.

In-other-words, Einstein: No one cares to use them because
they have half-a-brain or better.

I have gpg, but I don't use it to validate signatures or
sign posts on the Usenet.

It is the quality of your posts that count on the Usenet.

Nothing else.

Now. Your PGP sig makes me suspicious, and I'm going to
do some research on you.

AC

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