On 7/11/2009 6:38 PM, Steven W. Orr wrote: > On 07/11/09 18:05, quoth David: >> My email client, Thunderbird, goes out and searches for his 'not made >> public as it should be' public Key each and every post. Which takes, >> depends on the various Keyservers, 20 +- seconds *each* Kerserver for >> *each* post. Two in one thread? Does it twice. Three? Does it three >> times. Etc... > >> I would think that the other email clients using GnuPG do the same. I >> can set it *not* to do that here but that is not what I wish. And why >> should I set my system so that one person can do things incorrectly? > >> But no longer. I asked him politely. But his attitude bought him the bit >> bucket here. > >> Understand now? > > If I may, I'd like to amplify on "G"'s lack of Netiquette. I am also using > Thunderbird with the Enigmail plugin. I too have my system set up for > "Automatically Decrypt/Verify" and was previously forced to have long delays > every time I saw a message from him. AND I too have taken pains to have him > filtered out of my sight. > > I am new to the use of PGP but I have studied it from the math, to the > computer interface, to the historical and to the sociological aspects. We send > mail via post office all the time and we sign them and seal our messages in an > envelope. PGP is the same thing. I can send mail and set the From line to > Barack Obama and it's trivial to do so. Or, I can send mail out as you and > most people wouldn't be able to tell. We all know about how big a problem > identity theft is and yet so few of us sign our mail. That absolutely > fascinates me. So while "G" is acting like a nitwit by not even understanding > how his behavior is fundamentally rude, I'd like to take this opportunity to > encourage more of you to start signing your mail. There are basically two ways > to do it. You can either use the PGP(or GnuPG) scheme, or you can use S/MIME. > S/MIME is better for scalability in corporations. PGP is better in public. PGP > is free and for SMIME to properly work, you have to get a cert from some > trusted Cert Authority (CA). For most people, that would mean Verisign, and > for others it would mean certs that shouldn't be trusted in the first place. > > Anyways, I said what I wanted to say and you can all do what you want, but > maybe at least a few more will be better informed, and that's really why we're > all here. > > This message is signed, but if you read it, you'll at least be able to fetch > my public key. I already have your public key sir! :-) I do not, as a practice, sign emails to mail lists. Nor do I add long 'signatures' to anything. Some of us, there are many, are not in a position to deal with these things. Dial-up. Limited bandwidth. And other situations. Polite goes a long way. Have a nice day. -- David -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
