I've always wondered about that. Presumably you also need a pgp, or gpg compatible newsreader that checks a message against its key. For those who don't, a simple cut and paste of the original posters' public key should be enough to pass muster against the casual reader?
No, the "key" part of the message also contains information about the message itself. So the key from one message won't validate against any other message.
(I think, it's years since I even half played with PGP)
But if you think about it a little, if the cut 'n paste worked PGP would less use than a chocolate teapot.
... to validate it. My news reader doesn't have such facility, so pgp sigs are merely more useless cruft to be downloaded. I'd need to save the message out and manually run pgp/gpg over it and I've never found the need to do that since PGP was first written.
Maybe it'd work if everyone's news reader was thus enabled, but even then the negatives outweigh the positives I think.
Daft suggestion to sign in a public newsgroup where pseudonyms and anonymous email addresses are common imo, but then, so much that's associated with Imm is daft...
Ah thats it, but apart from the incorrect term the rest is pretty close. The signature is a combination of the message body and private key, you can't take the signature from one message and copy it into another and expect it to validate.
Thats only true if you use pgp software to validate: if you dont, anything that looks vahuely right will be validated by your average human eyes and brain.
Hmm? But your post introduces "list admins" instead of "admins", implying that this was a list. At least to me, but no matter.
Um, no. Ng's and usenet are still a minority area, as is irc. Lists have their place (ie, a moderatable, private or semi-private collection of like-minded people). Egroups/yahoogroups or whatever they call themselves used to be incredibly popular until they overtipped the acceptable balance of spam/user abuse.
Thing is, since most of these lists are private, nobody can say how popular they are. Personally I'm on more lists than ng's.
No spam (outside the major free list providers), no trolls - there's a lot to be said for lists. OTOH, you're at the whim of the moderator/owner so both have their place.
I don't think it was "Set Square's" joke, as the headers show. But it was a very good joke nonetheless, and for a wonderfull moment I thought you had acquired a sense of humour.
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