Re: [PLUG] gpg/mailing list?

[LeRoy Cressy <leroy@lrcressy.com>]

The idea of encrypting email to the list is not a good idea if we have
the list set up to help those in need.  There are a lot who are not
subscribed to the list that read the archives for their own needs.  If
we start encrypting everything we are effectively locking out the new
Linux user who is coming to us for help.  

Though this is an interesting thread I wouldn't like to see the list's
mail encrypted.

gabriel rosenkoetter wrote:
> 
> 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...)
> 
> --
> gabriel rosenkoetter
> gr@eclipsed.net
> 
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