linux-users Mailing List Statistics for July 2006

[Dominic Lepiane]

On Tuesday 01 August 2006 19:53, Collins Richey wrote:
> On 8/1/06, Kurt Wall <kwall at kurtwerks.com> wrote:
> > Number of PGP signed messages: 2 (0.54%)
>
> And there was much rejoicing in mudville about this statistic <grin>.
> Some of us old curmudgeons hate to have to skip over the
> header/trailer trash that signed messages put in the mail.

Well clearly that doesn't count PGP/MIME signed messages since there's more 
then two of us that sign our messages and I know I've sent more then two 
messages myself.

As for "old curmudgeons", I prefer the term stubborn neo-luddite who hates 
having verifiable message integrity.  I'll grant that the in-line signed 
messages should not be used, but there's really no reason anyone on this list 
should not be checking signatures.  GNUPG is part of most distros and any 
reasonable mail client, from mutt to kmail, can check signatures.
-- 
Dominic Lepiane

"When I read of the evils of drinking, I gave up reading."
- Henry Youngman

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