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Re: [PLUG] Re: PLUG - The Happy Fun List!
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On Friday 04 October 2002 10:49 am, Michael Leone wrote:
> Weeellll ... to a mailing list, probably. Ya never know if it's some
> virus/worm generated thing, and you might get infected somehow (less
> of an option with us *nix types, but still ...); there's always that
> wasted bandwidth issue; and some folks (not usually in the U.S.,
> however) pay by the connection minute, so forcing them to download an
> attachment that they may not want, just to read a post on a mailing
> list, is somewhat rude.
>
>
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> Member, LEAF Project <http://leaf.sourceforge.net> AIM: MikeLeone
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> Registered Linux user# 201348
I am certainly among those who prefer not to receive HTML mail for the
reasons mentioned, and also because so much of it is so tacky. (Just
because you can, doesn't mean you should. Putting the Gimp or
Photoshop on your computer doesn't make you and artist.)
But, for some of the same reasons, I think PGP/GPG signatures are
overused. Yeah, I know the arguments for authentication, but is
authentication necessary for most list mail? Does it really matter who
really wrote it? Monitoring this list for a while, I have come to
associate names with smart or stupid, nice or nasty, but all most of us
really care about are the ideas themselves, not where they came from.
Of course, signatures are indispensabe for conducting business, but
list mail?
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