gabriel rosenkoetter on Thu, 18 Apr 2002 04:10:12 +0200


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Re: [PLUG] gpg/mailing list?


On Wed, Apr 17, 2002 at 09:38:20PM -0400, Darxus@chaosreigns.com wrote:
> I don't think gpg goes well with the concept of a mailing list.  I think
> the best option would be to have each member set up their mail client to
> encrypt every message they send to the list with the keys of all of the
> other members.

But that requires that each member of the list know about all the
other members, as they'll have to send an individually-encrypted
message to each. That kind of defeats the purpose of a mailing list,
doesn't it? (Mailing lists are to that what DNS is to a globally
distributed /etc/hosts...)

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gabriel rosenkoetter
gr@eclipsed.net

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