From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Sep 23 17:22:23 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: FreeBSD-Stable@FreeBSD.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 19F971065672 for ; Wed, 23 Sep 2009 17:22:23 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from peter@simons-rock.edu) Received: from hedwig.simons-rock.edu (hedwig.simons-rock.edu [208.81.88.14]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E19708FC08 for ; Wed, 23 Sep 2009 17:22:22 +0000 (UTC) Received: from cesium.hyperfine.info (c2.8d.5646.static.theplanet.com [70.86.141.194]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hedwig.simons-rock.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9B3932BB33D; Wed, 23 Sep 2009 13:22:21 -0400 (EDT) Date: Wed, 23 Sep 2009 13:22:20 -0400 From: "Peter C. Lai" To: Robert Noland Message-ID: <20090923172219.GI81123@cesium.hyperfine.info> References: <14572_1253722226_4ABA4872_14572_143_1_1253722172.2057.1017.camel@balrog.2hip.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <14572_1253722226_4ABA4872_14572_143_1_1253722172.2057.1017.camel@balrog.2hip.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.17 (2007-11-01) Cc: FreeBSD Current , FreeBSD Stable , FreeBSD Ports , "J. Hellenthal" Subject: Re: Signing Request X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 23 Sep 2009 17:22:23 -0000 At the risk of sounding offtopic and political, as participants in IT and the open source community at large, aren't we supposed to hold ourselves to the "higher standard" and promote the use of encrypted email? If we're refusing to read signed messages because we have client-side problems with signatures (and are too lazy to fix them), how do we expect (or wish for) the rest of the world to do so? On 2009-09-23 11:09:32AM -0500, Robert Noland wrote: > On Wed, 2009-09-23 at 11:40 -0400, J. Hellenthal wrote: > > If you do not need to pgp/gpg sign email message to the lists please don't. I > > know I probably don't have your pgp public key and a lot more users probably do > > not either. Please use your best judgment. > > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/pgpkeyring.txt > > Frankly, I always sign messages, except that evolution / gpg support is > currently a bit broken... > > robert. > > > Thank you and best regards. > > -- > Robert Noland > FreeBSD > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" -- =========================================================== Peter C. Lai | Bard College at Simon's Rock Systems Administrator | 84 Alford Rd. Information Technology Svcs. | Gt. Barrington, MA 01230 USA peter AT simons-rock.edu | (413) 528-7428 ===========================================================