a small feature request

[David Shaw]

On Thu, Feb 24, 2005 at 06:48:30PM +0100, Marco d'Itri wrote:
> On Feb 24, David Shaw <dshaw at jabberwocky.com> wrote:
> 
> > I've always resisted this, using the logic that if a server operator
> > doesn't actually *need* to know the GnuPG version, why give it to
> > them?
> This should be obvious: to help tracking misbehaving clients.

No question that version strings are a wonderful thing for the server
operator to have.  That doesn't answer the question why a user should
choose to provide them.  Who benefits here?  Not the client.

David