On Mon, Jul 15, 2002 at 03:43:12PM -0400, bradley@dunn.org said:
Scott Francis wrote:
There are a great many good reasons to do so, and no good reasons not to. Broken software and laziness don't count.
Sure there are. Non-repudiation is not always a good thing. Do you get every physical document you write notarized? If you are sued and email is
No, but I use an envelope and a signature on every piece of snail mail I send that I author myself. (Not that there are that many nowadays.)
submitted as evidence by the plaintiff would you rather the mail be signed or unsigned?
I stand behind what I write. If I am sued, I doubt that anything I wrote in email would be to blame. In such a scenario (which, I might add, is entirely hypothetical), the existence or lack of a PGP signature would hardly be the problem. The actions that prompted the lawsuit would, and that is a whole other kettle of fish altogether. This is now so far off-topic I can't even _see_ the NANOG charter. Final post by me. I did enjoy reading the various opinions submitted, but I hold little hope that any arguments given, no matter their merit, will prompt any change in the same. -- -= Scott Francis || darkuncle (at) darkuncle (dot) net =- GPG key CB33CCA7 has been revoked; I am now 5537F527 illum oportet crescere me autem minui