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why Wired ... don't [use PGP] to make subscribing easier?

Because if you saw the low-tech state of the Wired office...

Yup, too busy to automate. After all, if they took orders by email, they wouldn't need manual intervention. It all makes perfect sense. Why spend effort to lower the amount of time their staff need to spend on manual tasks? Makes more sense just to remain buried.

That a bunch of their staff is the minimum-wage "gee, look at my Mac" crowd might have something to do with it. I was amazed to find out that there really are two sides to Wired: the professional computer geeks (eg. Negroponte) and the professional get-a-magazine-out geeks, and the twain never seem to meet. -----------------------------------------------------------------------+ Michael Sattler <msattler@jungle.com> San Francisco, California | Digital Jungle Consulting Services http://www.jungle.com/msattler/ | | And so these men of Indostan/ disputed long and loud/ each in his own | opinion/ exceeding stiff and strong/ though each was partly right/ and | all were in the wrong! - John Godfrey Saxe |