On 3/27/06, David Alexander Russell webmaster@davidarussell.co.uk wrote:
To meet verifiability requirements the email would probably have to be signed with a verified S/MIME certificate issued by a well-known certification authority such as VeriSign (NOT Verisign's 'community certificates' program or whatever the hell its called, that is not even verified) otherwise it would be laughably easy to fake
That seems a little extreme, considering that for any other reference, we don't require *any* form of proof whatsoever. People can simply make up a book, and say that page 38 proves their point beyond doubt.
Simply including the person's email address seems perfectly verifiable to me. You write to them and say "Did you really say this?"
Note also that I'm applying this specifically to the "Stephen Hawking now rejects his own theory" scenario.
Steve