Is there anyway for the list software to incorporate digital signatures as verifying the poster is a list member? I know Tim posted a whistle-blowing trial balloon, and I have used my anonymous acct to post here. It would be nice if the software used digital signatures to verify list members regardless of their actual origin of posting. Presumably the signature recognition base would be seperate from the names base. This is primarily directed to the Extropians mailing list, but overlaps to cypherpunks. What I am considering is that a user could chose to only accept digitally verified postings. That would eliminate noise like subscription requests. It would also "verify" anonymous postings as being from a "valid" (as in list member) source. I know there are some problems such as maintaining anonymity, but I think verifying would have some interesting and positive results. We could trade HeX shares based on signatures, not names. That would eliminate the element of personality (or some of it) contest. Some one who is considered persona non gratia could redeem themselves with a series of high quality, but anonymous posts. A. Techno-Anarchy.Neophilia.Economic Freedom.Cryptography.Anti-Statism.Personal Liberty.Laissez-Faire.Privacy Protection.Libertarianism.No Taxes.No Bullshit. ********** Liberty BBS 1-614-798-9537 ********** ********** Dedicated to Freedom. Yours. **********