Anyone interested in using PGP with netnews, or with E-Mail in the long run, should be looking at the new internet drafts on security multipart extensions to MIME. Perry Jonathan Rochkind says:
No, I think he's essentially talking about a 'secure' moderated newsgroup. That is, the moderator(s) would sign each 'authorised' message with a special key, and the newsreader would verify that it was signed by a
Ah, now I understand, thanks. Actually, now that I see what you're getting at, this _does_ seem like a good idea. I think moderated newsgroups can be useful in some circumstances (sure, including a fundie newsgroup), and it would be nice to have a cryptographically secure system of doing this, that cant' be easily circumvented like the present one.
And I agree that scripts using PGP do seem capable of doing this, rather then writing some new software. This actually is quite a good idea.