[PLUG] what is the point of PGP-signed emails?

Jason Van Cleve jason at vancleve.com
Tue Dec 9 11:19:13 UTC 2003


Quoth Paul Johnson, on Mon, 8 Dec 2003 18:51:28 -0800:

> > violates the trust given to them by sending spam, their signatures
> > are revoked. It's a thought, anyways.
> 
> Well, their signatures wouldn't be revoked, but everybody could just
> set their trust level with that person to be untrustable.

So every client has to maintain a separate list of known spammers?  I
don't know, the web of trust is a fine idea, but I don't think it is
strong enough to tackle spam.

--Jason Van Cleve

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