Messages in this thread |  | | Subject | Re: [off-topic] unsolited mailings... | Date | Wed, 25 Sep 1996 09:35:25 +0100 | From | ". Tethys " SYSTEM ADMIN " X" <> |
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Alexandre Maret <amaret@infomaniak.ch> wrote:
>2) a suggestion : > > we could require use of pgp and send only encrypted mail > to subscribers. We would produce a message > readable by everyone on the list (possible with pgp... > dunno how much time it would take to encrypt a 4kB > mail for ... 1000 recipients (realistic?)) > > we could also require all incoming mails to be signed, > and use some kind of trusted key server... ran by linux's > fans
Nice idea, but completely impractical, since a lot of people read the linux mailing lists from work. Many companies have a policy of not allowing external software (and PGP falls into this category) to be loaded onto the corporate network, so you'd be preventing a large number of people from reading the lists altogether :-(
Tet
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