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[ADMIN] PGP Announce List Update

>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Calling All PGP Fanatics! (of varying degrees) <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<

ADMINISTRIVIA:

The signed message below is what someone sending mail to <[email protected]> would eventually see. Please pass it on to your significant others, so to speak.

FYI, I'll be in Boston at CFP96 from 26 Mar - 2 Apr, so no list-admin-business will likely get done during that period. Expect more news soon after my return about PGP 3.0 and other exciting developments. [ cue music: "Jaws" theme ]

USUAL SUSPECTS WITH PGP ANECDOTES SOUGHT:

Anyone who has an anus-clenching anecdote, an amusing remembrance or just an aprocryphal Jonah+Whale-tale about their experiences with PGP is encouraged to send it to <[email protected]> for inclusion in an upcoming anthology (authors will be credited). Now's your chance to recount for all Posterity the adventurous days gone by when you were dropped behind enemy lines (Vienna, VA?) with only a laptop, your trusty educational PGP freeware and your McGyver-esque ingenuity. Do it soon, though if you want your name up in electrons: disk space is limited. ;)

    dave


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                      "The Official PGP Announce List"

Greetings. The PGP Announce List is a special-interest mailing list established to distribute first-line, official news and information about PGP (Pretty Good Privacy [tm]) from the development team led by Philip Zimmermann to interested parties worldwide (no cryptographic code is included in any of the posts).

Please read the instructions below to join the list. The list is hand-maintained to help ensure that the list is received _only_ by those persons who specifically ask for it and that it contains official information only.

All posting is moderated, and includes items about new PGP releases, legal developments, policy and legislative news, related software add-ons and scripts, co-development projects, software updates, domestic (USA/Canada) distribution notes, worldwide developments, etc. If you have an item to submit, do not send it to Phil: send it to <mailto:[email protected]>

Forwarding of pgp-announce is encouraged and appreciated, but you *must* copy the entire message (including any PGP signature blocks) or we'll send lawyers to your door with rubber hoses and bad attitudes. ;)

To obtain PGP for your platform (and from your geographic location worldwide) and see what all this darn excitement's about, point your web broswer at this page: <http://www.csn.net/~mpj/getpgp.htm>. When obtaining your copy of PGP, please respect all applicable export restrictions for your safety and the safety of others.

For generic PGP questions or help using the software, mail the smiling PGP Help Team volunteers at: <mailto:[email protected]> with a well-documented question in something approximating the English language AFTER consulting the documentation that _always_ accompanies a valid PGP release archive. The Help Team will answer any level of PGP question, ranging from crypto-beginners on up to super-paranoid-cypherpunk-developer types.

   dave


PS: Feel free to redirect the instructions below (including the PGP signature) 
    to anyone you know who is interested in news about PGP.

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INSTRUCTIONS

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.................... "How to get ON the PGP Announce List" ....................


 [1] <mailto:[email protected]>

 [2] SUBJECT:   Your Name <[email protected]>
                    /             \
   UNquoted (") Full name          \
                   Address in <angle-brackets> please, NOT parentheses.

The Body should be left EMPTY (as in nothing, zero, null, void). Please don't put the word "subscribe" anywhere in your msg (killfile fodder). People who can't manage to follow these instructions probably shouldn't be trusted with crypto stuff anyway, right? Once a *correctly-formatted* request makes it past the evolutionary-check-filters, the actual subscription process is higher-primate-managed and list membership is updated when announcements are mailed.

This list aspires to be the lowest-volume mailing list on the entire Internet, so you will NOT receive instant verification of your subscription (except for the exquisitely rare admin/test msgs and the announcements themselves). If you follow the instructions above EXACTLY, you're subscribed (and if you don't, you're not). Variations (eg. leaving out the <brackets> on the address or letting your auto-signature mechanism get out of control) will cause the bozo-filters to bit-bucket a request automagically. Sending multiple requests accomplishes nothing other than irritating the cage-cleaners. Send banana peels and/or complaints to <mailto:[email protected]>.

SUMMARY:

   (GOOD/YES/CAN-FOLLOW-DIRECTIONS)

        TO: [email protected]
      SUBJ: Your Name <your_address>
      BODY:


   (BAD/NO/CLUELESS)

        TO: [email protected]
      SUBJ: Joe Billy Bob Bozo [[email protected]}
      BODY: Howdy! Kin yew SUBSCRIBE me to yer list? I also has a question...



.................... "How to get OFF the PGP Announce List" ...................


If you wish to REMOVE yourself from the distribution list, or to CHANGE your listed address (which netiquette is greatly appreciated by the minions who shovel the bits and watch the mail-bounce errors collect, BTW), please format your request as follows:

   (ADDRESS REMOVAL)

        TO: [email protected]
      SUBJ: REMOVE Your Name <your_address>
      BODY:

   (ADDRESS CHANGE)

        TO: [email protected]
      SUBJ: CHANGE Your_Name <OLD_address> = <NEW_address>
      BODY:

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