In article <2h9gen$55r@uudell.us.dell.com> you write:
From owner-cypherpunks@toad.com Sat Jan 15 19:33:39 1994 From: VACCINIA@UNCVX1.OIT.UNC.EDU Subject: Using the tools we have To: cypherpunks@toad.com
The detman has been blathering for weeks about how he will subvert the list and we now see all sorts of rants impugning the reputations of certain cypherpunks. Postings are reiterated with the message that so and so said this or that and this person is a nazi, or some such drivel. I have no idea who said what because many of the technowizards don't avail themselves of the
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One usefull thing that could be done, is to design a list, that will only post pgp-signed messages. To subscribe to the list, you send your pgp public key, and it sends back its private key. In order ... Jeremy Porter ----------------- Systems Enginneering ---- Dell Computer Corp. --- jerry@terminus.us.dell.com -------- ------------------------------------------------------------ Support your Second Amendment rights to encryption technology.
You've given me an idea. I felt the edges of it when discussing my plans for an endorsement message enhancement to Netnews/INN/Tin/... Instead of controlling every message that gets posted, why don't we instead allow email endorsements. Each message has a unique message id, is fairly easy to identify, and could of course be PGP signed. What if we hacked a .procmailrc to 'mark' (Subject change?) or filter messages that weren't marked properly (say they were signed but not by the key you had for that person) OR those that received a later endorsement (positive/neg/typing) from someone on your trusted list. (ED: sorry for the long lines, I sometimes feel the thought is more clear that way.) Acting on an endorsement after you had received a message means modifying a mailbox, which needs to be done carefully. You might want to track where the message went if using automatic sorting in procmail. What do you think? sdw -- Stephen D. Williams Local Internet Gateway Co.; SDW Systems 513 496-5223APager LIG dev./sales Internet: sdw@lig.net sdw@meaddata.com OO R&D Source Dist. By Horse: 2464 Rosina Dr., Miamisburg, OH 45342-6430 GNU Support ICBM: 39 34N 85 15W I love it when a plan comes together