I'm doing some signing.

[grarpamp]

On Sat, Sep 23, 2017 at 3:39 AM, Steve Kinney <admin at pilobilus.net> wrote:
> Oddly enough, neither automated (Enigmail in Thunderbird) nor manual
> (saved as text file, attempt to import with the --import command in GPG
> 1.4.16) works.  Both indicate "no valid OpenPGP data found".  This is
> unique in my experience.

I think it's Yahooism encoding, once you fixup the junk it imports fine...

pub   4096R/9C6D998F 2016-09-11
      Key fingerprint = BD05 ADBB 556D D1D1 37DF  6FE9 598C AF68 9C6D 998F
uid                  Jim Bell <jdb10987 at yahoo.com>


> BTW, why not use the keyserver network?

Anyone can upload anyone's pubkey, though if no one does,
there's maybe some small privacy metadata gain there.