From: jamiel@sybase.com (Jamie Lawrence) [...] delays will degrade the quality of discussion on the list (time lag for only some has a way fragmenting discussion, as anyone with a sometimes-slow link can attest). If the delays remained entirely unexpected or random, quality would degrade. Humans, however, have an uncanny ability to modify their own behavior. I am also willing to risk a small amount of degradation to encourage people to actually use encryption tools. If you are set on this idea, may I echo someone else's suggestion of an autoresponder to annoy those posting without signing? I think this is a good idea which will help the communication intent of the whole proposal. [...] we all still know who is not signing [...] Having notification that a message wasn't signed was never presented as one of the purposes of the proposal. Eric