-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Sat, Mar 27, 2004 at 03:52:19PM -0500, Christopher Moore wrote: > Furthermore, the email becomes needlessly > cluttered with stuff that doesn't lend itself to speech output. > It is certainly possible that those who don't use gpg, may, as you say, find that messages sent by those who do use gpg are cluttered. However, what you describe as clutter proves very useful and beneficial to at least myself, now that I started using gpg, to be sure that a message sent from someone was actually sent by that person. furthermore, the fact that most if not all of us who use gpg have posted their public keys on key servers, makes sending an encrypted private message to a particular person very convenient, since we automatically have that person's public key on our key ring, thus saving us from the trouble of having to find out what that person's key id is so that we can get their key. Granted, I don't send encrypted private messages to other listers on a regular basis, but it is good to know that I have the ability to do so, should the need arise. I'm sure there are more things which I forgot to mention, which prove to be beneficial to those using gpg on public mailing lists. Also, the top of the email messages only says the message is pgp signed, and what you are most likely referring to as clutter (I.E. the poster's signature) is at the bottom of the message, which shouldn't pose a hindrance in comfortably reading a message. Note: I am not attempting to flame or criticize anyone, I am only stating my viewpoint regarding the benefits of using gpg on a public mailing list such as this one. Greg - -- Free domains: http://www.eu.org/ or mail dns-manager at EU.org -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFAZiIV7s9z/XlyUyARAjsYAKCVTnQX1j42oFyagst33aRAuLLbpACfREXy fiYydGN7GXL/VJwMYjB32WA= =IFJD -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
