on Tue, Aug 05, 2003 at 11:36:41PM +0100, Colin Watson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Tue, Aug 05, 2003 at 10:36:01PM +0100, Karsten M. Self wrote:
<...> > > Given that a given key is only retrieved once, the penalty is > > front-loaded, and gets better. > > > > You can always abort the fetch with ^C. > > I can, but I'm often reading mail over a relatively slow ssh link and it > takes me a few seconds for my brain to decide whether it's just a slow > connection or whether gpg is really sitting there trying to talk to a > keyserver. Trust me, I did consider this and it really does slow me down > significantly while I'm trying to get through the huge number of mails I > get a day in a sensible amount of time. I can always (and do, now and > then) retrieve keys explicitly in cases where I'm interested. Dittos on the mail config. 56k to a transcon, transoceanic connection. On a slow box. Hell, even when I _do_ have the key, validations take an appreciable amount of time. So yes, I feel your pain. > Likewise, I've turned off gpg's automatic trustdb check since I very > rarely care about the results. People I trust I also know, and these > days I've often signed their key too. I suffer, but then, that's just me ;-) Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? Verio webhosting? Guaranteed downtime: http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,57011,00.html http://www.dowethics.com/r/environment/freedom.html
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