confirm blah, or why signing mail may be a good idea.

[Thomas Stivers]

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The surprisingly large response to a message that had all the halmarks
of a virus just made me want to point out that pgp signing your mail all the
time ensures that other list participants won't mistake spam/viruses
that use your address in the from line for messages from you. I have received a number of
messages from polite to vitriolic accusing me of sending out viruses
just because of a few posts I have made to forums which were mirrored to
usenet and therefore my address got slirped into a database for spam and
viruses. I hate to be obnoxious about it, but pgp signing your mail is
IMHO the best way to prove that the virus that crashes your grandma's
computer wasn't really from you. Sorry for the rant. Aaahhh for the good
old days when a rant like this was the worst thing in my inbox.

- -- 
Clarke's Corollary:
Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced.
Thomas Stivers	e-mail: stivers_t at tomass.dyndns.org
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