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Are the key servers listed in the PGP documentation still active? And if so, what is the general opinion of using them?

Key server == list of people to bust and who knows who. (compute the transitive closure of the signatures)

Yeah, but there are >1501 keys on it (last time I checked, which was about three weeks ago). And the size seems to be growing pretty fast. Remember the "mandatory" draft registration imposed by Carter in 1980? I think about two kids were ever busted for not registering, and they were VERY active and vocal. The whole draft registration program was basically ignored, and what was the government going to, arrest every American male born after 1962? I think it's important to get as many keys on the servers as possible, for the same reasons that encryption itself should be used as widely as possible. --Dave.