On Sat, Aug 02, 2003 at 03:47:54PM -0700, Steve Lamb wrote: > On Sat, 2 Aug 2003 21:06:22 +0200 > David Fokkema <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I know that, :-) However, Steve was telling how much time he invested in > > manually downloading and checking keys because of problems. I was > > responding to that. > > Of course I am going to take a few steps. I have a vested interest in > communicating with Manoj. Erm, sorry Manoj, I've never gotten a personal > pronoun to fit so here goes with a he. If I'm wrong I apologize now. He's > consistently been helpful on this list with Debian and while I have never > personally had a reply from him on any of my problems his messages have always > been informative to read. He's one of the names I've picked out of the crowd > to listen to when it comes to matters Debian and Linux because I know from > past experience he's done his homework. As such me having a key which results > in a bad signature from him causes me some concern because I want that portion > of the mechanism to work seamlessly. Not only for my own edification but for > others, as well. > > On the other hand if it were Alan's PGP key (if he ever had the sense to > sign anything) I'd just delete it without comment because he has proven > himself a pig-headed ignorant fool time and again here and in Devel over the > past week. I don't have a vested interest in communicating with him at all.
;-) > > However that vested interest doesn't spill into having to jump through C-R > hoops to tell Manoj that something is wrong with that signature. I'm willing > to manually verify the keys I have against the keys listed in his signature > because I don't want to fire off a message to him and waste his time replying > "Well, are you using the correct keys?" That would be rude of me to not have > double-checked my end before sending it to him. By the same token it would be > rude of him to turn away someone who is informing him of a potential problem > in either his configuration or the keys that are currently present on the > publicly available keyservers. I've already gone through the effort of > verifying it wasn't my end, why should I then have to go through the added > effort of verifying I am who I say I am when I am doing something out of > courtesy. A *lot* of the email I send out is of that nature and it piles up > right fast. No thanks. It is not worth it. Point taken. David -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
