GnuPG and PGP 2.6: unusable public key

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Nick Andriash wrtote:
> Hello disastry,
> On Friday, October 19 2001 at 12:33 AM PDT, you wrote:
> 
> > or even better: you should ask a friend to self-sign his key.
> 
> What was the purpose or strategy behind a non-self signed UID?
> Nick

no strategy.
pgp 2.6.2 did not selfsigned keys by default.
this was fixed in 2.6.3i
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