Laziness?

Why announce to the world that I read cypherpunks if I don't have to?

This is one reason that we have not disable the 'who' command on the toad.com majordomo server. If you want the public not to know you're on the cypherpunks list, get and use an alias.

Point taken; but if you receive unencrypted mail on a multi-user system, you're likely deluding yourself about its security as well.

There are two issues here. I don't mind reading most mail on a shared machine, but I'm sure as hell not going to let my private key inside its RAM. Eric