FEDORA net etiquette

[Chris Snook]

Joachim Backes wrote:
> Until tomorrow, I always sent signed emails to the FEDORA mailing list,
> where the signature was issued by the PKI of my computer center (german 
> university). But some fedora list people told me that even very small 
> emails always have a size of at least 8 kilobyte.
> 
> Therefore i switched to unsigned emails.
> 
> My question: are there rules for the fedora email traffic saying: do not 
> use signatures?

No.  Proper use of PKI (such as GPG signatures) is worth a few bytes.  Anyone 
who desperately cares about this can choose to receive mail in daily digest 
format, which saves far more in headers than would be consumed even if everyone 
on the list used GPG.

-- Chris