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>>>>> "Marc" == Marc Eberhard <marc@athene.thphy.uni-duesseldorf.de> writes:

    Marc> Hi, over the last weeks I received quite a few mails like
    Marc> this one. Some more friendly, some less.

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    Marc> I did and I decided the following: Since I don't have the
    Marc> time anyway, I will stop to read the mgetty mailing list and
    Marc> I will not post to it anymore. Sorry for any inconvenience I
    Marc> might have caused in the past. It will not happen again.

I did not see any smileys in this post, Marc.  I hope you were not
serious in deciding to stop participating in the mgetty/vgetty mailing 
list.  To do so would practically kill vgetty.

I think signing your email is highly desirable, especially when you
are the author of most of the software you reply about, and people
want to be able to trust that it is really you and not some imposter
posting the message instead.  This is good practice, and is standard
on security related mailing lists.  If an inbound modem connection to
a system is not a security consideration, I don't know what is!  I
want to know that the author posting patches to the code is who he
says he is, and pgp signing your post is the best way to allow all
readers to be sure of who you are.

If these people do not know how to read pgp signed email, then they
should start reading the security newsgroups -- not just to learn how, 
but also to learn *WHY*!

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