FEDORA net etiquette

Gilboa Davara gilboad at gmail.com
Tue Oct 28 18:03:52 UTC 2008


On Tue, 2008-10-28 at 12:05 -0400, Chris Snook wrote:
> Joachim Backes wrote:
...
> > 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
> 

... All nice and dandy, but it would have been nice if anyone would have
been able to give me -one- solid reason why he/she needs to sign his/her
messages - when they are being posted in a high-volume public ML. (Geek
factor not included)

- Gilboa




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