Using the tools we have
Stephen Williams
sdw at meaddata.com
Sat Jan 15 15:33:06 PST 1994
>
> In article <2h9gen$55r at uudell.us.dell.com> you write:
> >
> >From owner-cypherpunks at toad.com Sat Jan 15 19:33:39 1994
> >From: VACCINIA at UNCVX1.OIT.UNC.EDU
> >Subject: Using the tools we have
> >To: cypherpunks at 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
...
> 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 at 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
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