-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- In article <199411300734.XAA10429@largo.remailer.net>, you wrote:
Let me be REAL clear about this. The immediate proposal is to mark and possibly delay unsigned messages to the list.
In my view, delaying unsigned messages is only moderately better than dropping them. It punishes users for having non-crypto-friendly email setups (and makes things somewhat more confusing for other list readers, even the ones who sign their messages).
From: tcmay@netcom.com (Timothy C. May)
Not to trivialize this proposal by frivolously insulting it, but consider a mailing list that decided to delay/bounce any messages that were not written in TeX, or in Acrobat, or whatever.
I don't think you are frivolously insulting it, but I do think you are ignoring the basic distinction I made about the difference between measures which prevent use and measures which do not. The use of the syntax "delay/bounce" denies exactly this distinction.
Yes, but you are denying the way in which delaying, like bouncing, actively interferes with the timely forwarding of non-signers' messages, while merely marking them is a more passive form of harrassment. Yes, there is a distinction between delaying and bouncing. There is also a distinction between battery and homicide. You keep insisting that delaying unsigned messages does not interfere with non-signers' abilities to participate in the discussion. I say you are wrong. It's a positive hindrance. It punishes people for circumstances that may well be beyond their control. It's a bad idea. You maintain the list, you can do what you want. As you can plainly see (Tim's right on this one), I sign my posts to the list, and my posts would get the favored treatment. No one can stop you; but if you do something that makes valued contributors take a walk, you wouldn't be doing the list any favors. (Are you going to make sure that all the signatures are valid, or will you accept someone sticking a PGP signature into their .sig and using it over and over?) | In the other room I passed by Ellen Leverenz as Alan Bostick | someone asked her "Do you know any monopole abostick@netcom.com | jokes?" finger for PGP public key | "Sure," she said. "In fact, I know two of them." Key fingerprint: | -- Terry Carr, GILGAMESH 50 22 FB 46 41 A3 17 9D F7 33 FF E1 4E 1C 89 79 +legal_kludge=off -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.1 iQB1AgUBLt1TQeVevBgtmhnpAQEHRgMAolHcawJ0g9KuZ3NI4DzeyNMJilO3wq/6 ABPmZiXGjxAxNXPiO1I3D9ZgjBYmglJiSo/mjfT0EyqA3UWDq801/4HegO7+3g8w xvhDa2KKvLi1iwO205rVPIIZ6pAfWupF =UYbe -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----