At 12:34 AM 11/30/94, Eric Hughes wrote:

Does a mark or a delay constitute an "effective bar" from participation on this list? I think not, although I'm entertaining arguments.

I don't think marking or delaying constitutes an effective bar from the list. I do think that marks are redundant (as Tim said, it is pretty obvious who signs and who doesn't), and that 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). Degrading the list value, I would think, not your intended goal and would punish the rest of the list members for a non-signer's sins, so to speak. This, of course, depends on the lag - 5 minutes won't matter, but why bother? 1 day would (IMHO) kill quite a bit of discussion. Somewhere in between (the 2-4 hours you mentioned in one post) could head either way. If you are set on this idea, may I echo someone else's suggestion of an autoresponder to annoy those posting without signing? Doesn't impact the list, we all still know who is not signing, and the culprit gets to delete a message informing them of where to find the latest version of PGP.

Eric

-j