Richard Childers writes:
It is the user's job to hide his or her identity, but it should not be the programmer's responsibility to anticipate the user's failure to think at all. Someone who uses these tools without understanding the principles upon which they are founded - such as people whom accept keys from individuals whom are only electronically known - will quickly founder upon their own, um, state of stupor, and one should not undertake to protect them from this, as what you are pro- -tecting them from, in reality, is the opportunity to learn from their mistakes.
Well, in principle I agree. And if I would start from a clean slate, I would *gladly* leave out the sig stripper. But people in groups such as alt.sexual.abuse.recovery have come to rely on the behaviour of previous servers, and are *not* very computer- or e-mail-literate. Julf (admin@anon.penet.fi)