On 2/3/11 8:17 PM, Doug Barton wrote: > So, you're saying that hams are not smart enough to figure out how to > use expert mode if they really want this functionality? :)
You're moving the goalposts. That was responding to someone who denied the usefulness of comments at all. If I'm establishing there are communities who use comments, and these communities often exist under the radar of list members, then it's disingenuous to say "but they can just use expert mode." Whether it should be in normal mode or expert mode is a completely different question from whether there exist a significant number of users who find the comment field useful. As long as we're moving things into expert mode, I'd like to see all non-default options moved into expert mode, including key lengths. I've never seen anyone outside of the intelligence community who had a need for a 4096-bit key: why do we support generating them? I've seen people screw up expiration dates more often than I've seen them use expiration dates as part of a sane, rational security policy: why is this option part of the default, why isn't setting an expiration date reserved for expert users? Etc., etc. If you open up the "well, I think it ought to be in expert mode," there are a lot of other things that ought to be moved over there first. _______________________________________________ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users
