I just signed onto this list. What the hell is all this nonsense that I hear about mandating PGP signed messages? I thought the whole grassroots crypto thing was about protecting privacy rights and individual liberty and all that. So what if someone wants to post a message to cypherpunks AND DOES NOT WANT ANYONE TO BE ABLE TO PROVE THEY WROTE THE MESSAGE. Whether because they fear legal prosecution, or some other social consequence down the line, or whatever. It's everyone's personal choice whether they want their name nailed down unmistakably to given messages of personal/political/WHATEVER nature. It seems heinously against the spirit of this list to mandate that pople append an unforgeable digital signature to everything they feel like saying to the list so that anyone, anywhere can prove that they said a particular thing at a partic time. If you have a problem with what someone said and want to verify its authenticity, why not just send them an email and ask them to sign the message personally? Tom