- Subject: Re: FEDORA net etiquette
- From: Gilboa Davara <gilboad@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2008 08:03:17 +0200
- In-reply-to: <20081028233623.GA24797@xxxxxxxx>
- Reply-to: "Community assistance, encouragement, and advice for using Fedora." <fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx>
On Tue, 2008-10-28 at 18:36 -0500, Gilboa Davara wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 20:03:52 +0200,
> Gilboa Davara <gilboad@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On Tue, 2008-10-28 at 12:05 -0400, Chris Snook wrote:
> > > Joachim Backes wrote:
> > ...
> > > > My question: are there rules for the fedora email traffic saying: do not
> > > > use signatures?
> > >
> > > No. Proper use of PKI (such as GPG signatures) is worth a few bytes. Anyone
> > > who desperately cares about this can choose to receive mail in daily digest
> > > format, which saves far more in headers than would be consumed even if everyone
> > > on the list used GPG.
> > >
> > > -- Chris
> > >
> >
> > ... All nice and dandy, but it would have been nice if anyone would have
> > been able to give me -one- solid reason why he/she needs to sign his/her
> > messages - when they are being posted in a high-volume public ML. (Geek
> > factor not included)
>
> Non-repudiation.
Yey. You managed to send a message that looks like it was sent by me.
I'm shocked.
... We are talking about Fedora-users, not CVS-traffic@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Gilboa
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