Mutt/GnuPG doc initial release

[Owen Blacker]

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Gordon Worley wrote (2001-09-25 T 09:09 -0400):

> From: Gordon Worley <redbird@rbisland.cx>
> To: GnuPG Users List <gnupg-users@gnupg.org>
> Envelope-To: owen@flirble.org
> Message-ID: <a05100301b7d63169c6a1@[132.170.45.151]>
> Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2001 09:09:59 -0400
> Subject: Re: Mutt/GnuPG doc initial release
>
> At 8:58 AM -0400 9/25/01, Anthony E. Greene wrote:
> >Signing *all* messages establishes a consistent pattern. If the one
> >message that is not signed also contains content that is not consistent
> >with the purported author's normal pattern, the argument that it's a
> >forgery becomes much more credible.
>
> Correct, and all my friends know this (on a rare occasion if I fail
> to sign a message for some reason they've picked up the phone and
> called me to make sure that the message was from me and to send it
> again, signed, just to be sure).  On a list, though, much as you'd
> like to think otherwise, only a handful of people are well known and
> a message that is out of line for them will look forged.  Otherwise,
> no one cares if a message is from you are not, we're just interested
> in your ideas, not you.  Even when sending in code for people to use,
> I would certainly hope they actually read the code before doing
> anything with it (like the recently posted procmail stuff), so
> signing probably doesn't do much good even there.

I've recently had some problems with a combination of new version of
Outlook, Exchange and YahooGroups (that possibly was only the latter, it
would seem).  Several people asked why my signatures were breaking.

I honestly believe that it is a good thing to sign all messages.  As I
said before, if I didn't sign it or the signature doesn't validate,
question whether I sent it.


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