🚀 go-pugleaf

jcooley@world.std.com (John Cooley) writes:
> Gary McGath <gmcgath@condes.mv.com> wrote:
> >-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
> >Version: 2.6.2
> >
> >iQBVAwUBL+VTeO4rHMPCLWOFAQFsngH+Jw28/fLQhRePyrwpV9JwsEmczrhBXSvg
> >GQMHSb9n8LWl47VR1cQchaAxN4AKhTKoEmST05A4rBvEe4aHVdyuBA==
> >=YQlO
> >-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
> 
> My PGP software says that this post didn't come from Gary at all!  Someone's
> hacked Gary's account or he's misrepresenting his own PGP verification key
> as a head game on us!

Martin J. Hannigan <hannigan@bose.com> wrote:
>Sounds like you've answered your own question.
>
>-- 
>Martin Hannigan (hannigan@bose.com) 			Bose Corporation
>"Better Softball Through Research" 


Martin, this proved my point perfectly.  It's been two days since I posted
this claim of a forged post and the *only* person who verified it was Gary
McGath himself.  That is, NO ONE ELSE EXCEPT THE POSTER HIMSELF BOTHERS TO
CHECK PGP KEYS -- even when there's a public question about the origin of
a post.  In other words, all the PGP overhead is a waste for publically
posted items (great for private e-mail & legal documents, etc., but a waste
for the trivial banter that's always going on in the newsgroups.)

This is the only point I'm making.  I'm not against PGP, nor am I a secret
Rebublican/Fascist shill working to get Limbaugh "installed" as America's
first dictator seeing PGP blocking his rightful ascendency, nor am I a
Clintonista working to oppress individual rights by trying to stop evil PGP
and promoting Government crackable Clipper chips abound -- I'm JUST saying
PGP on trivial posts is a real waste of everyone's time.  No one checks
the stuff, ever!  And when questionable posts come out, we STILL go through
the same old routine of having the original poster saying: "I didn't write
that!"

  - John Cooley

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