Perhaps this is just from hanging around on the Debian project, but for
"official" notices, I got used to the standard practice of them being
cryptographically signed using gnupg (
http://www.gnupg.org).
Cryptographic signing serves two purposes: so that it was possible to
verify that they were:
a) from who they claimed to be from
b) that they had approved the message.
Would it be feasible for Wikimedia to adopt the same process?
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Robert Merkel
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Eve Kendall (Eva Marie Saint):He followed me here from the hotel.
Leonard (Martin Landau): He was in your room?
Roger Thornhill (Carey Grant): Sure. Isn't everybody?
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