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Re: Hardening lists against spam attacks
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On Tue, 31 Dec 1996, snow wrote:
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That message said:
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>The Thorn wrote:
>> Bill Frantz wrote:
>> > All messages sent to the list must be encrypted with the list's
>public key.
>>
>> So in order to post here, I hafta install and run PGP? Well, people
>> were looking for the perfect formula to deny service to guys like me,
>> and guess what? You found it! I will *not* install and run PGP.
>
> Why not? There are acceptable email interfaces for just about every
>platform out there (pgp-elm, Eudora hooks, Private Idaho etc), and it
>really isn't _that_ much of a hassle to do.
>
> It isn't enough to _write_ the code, or even to talk about it, you
>have
>to USE it as well.
>
>
>Petro, Christopher C.
>[email protected] <prefered for any non-list stuff>
>[email protected]
>
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I am using one of those email interfaces (premail + pine) and had trouble
reading your last message. I had to save the PGP attachement to a file.
To quote it, I had to read it in from a file. No big deal, and if I
changed software I could probably make it automatic. I suspect most
people on the list have yet to set up any software of this type. So if I,
already using such software, had a little trouble with one message, how
much trouble would others have? Then if the entire list were encrypted?
I suspect the list would lose a lot of subscribers.
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Scott V. McGuire <[email protected]>
PGP key available at http://web.syr.edu/~svmcguir
Key fingerprint = 86 B1 10 3F 4E 48 75 0E 96 9B 1E 52 8B B1 26 05
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