On 5/9/07, Sean Barrett sean@epoptic.com wrote:
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I've been signing messages to this list for some years now. Either I
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Yes, you add 10 lines of spam to every message you send. What's the benefit? How does this help us? Sorry, but I've been meaning to ask the PGP'ers for a while now. Is there such a great risk that someone will impersonate you and we will fall for it? It seems to me that signing your message lets you prove that you indeed were the author of a message. But it doesn't help an unsuspecting person know that you weren't the author of a message.
Steve