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Re: The Market for Crypto--A Curmudgeon's View
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In article <[email protected]>, you wrote:
> Let me be REAL clear about this. The immediate proposal is to mark
> and possibly delay unsigned messages to the list.
In my view, delaying unsigned messages is only moderately better than
dropping them. It punishes users for having non-crypto-friendly email
setups (and makes things somewhat more confusing for other list readers,
even the ones who sign their messages).
> From: [email protected] (Timothy C. May)
>
> Not to trivialize this proposal by frivolously insulting it, but
> consider a mailing list that decided to delay/bounce any messages that
> were not written in TeX, or in Acrobat, or whatever.
>
> I don't think you are frivolously insulting it, but I do think you are
> ignoring the basic distinction I made about the difference between
> measures which prevent use and measures which do not. The use of the
> syntax "delay/bounce" denies exactly this distinction.
Yes, but you are denying the way in which delaying, like bouncing,
actively interferes with the timely forwarding of non-signers' messages,
while merely marking them is a more passive form of harrassment. Yes,
there is a distinction between delaying and bouncing. There is also a
distinction between battery and homicide.
You keep insisting that delaying unsigned messages does not interfere
with non-signers' abilities to participate in the discussion. I say you
are wrong. It's a positive hindrance. It punishes people for
circumstances that may well be beyond their control. It's a bad idea.
You maintain the list, you can do what you want. As you can plainly see
(Tim's right on this one), I sign my posts to the list, and my posts
would get the favored treatment. No one can stop you; but if you do
something that makes valued contributors take a walk, you wouldn't be
doing the list any favors.
(Are you going to make sure that all the signatures are valid, or will
you accept someone sticking a PGP signature into their .sig and using it
over and over?)
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