On Tue, 30 May 2017 15:53:44 +0000 listo factor via Gnupg-users <gnupg-users@gnupg.org> writes, and having writ moves on:
>On 05/29/2017 11:52 PM, Konstantin Gribov - gros...@gmail.com wrote: >> Primary reason to publish a key is to make it available for >> fetching. It isn't a permission for anyone to annoy a person >> anyhow. > >Keservers have every characteristic of a public directory. > >What possible reason there could be for placing one's >e-mail in the public key if not to make it possible >for anyone to send an e-mail to the owner. To make >a piece of information publicly available on the net >and then depend on "netiquette" for that piece of >information not be used in a manner the owner finds >objectionable strikes me as a rather outdated notion. > Would you find it acceptable for someone to randomly call you and ask your opinion on a topic of their choosing just because your phone number happens to be on a public directory that person happened upon? The reason, not only possible, but likely, would be to let someone with a reason to send message to that e-mail have the necessary data to encrypt it and keep it as private as is needed. Mike Yetto -- "The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one." - George Bernard Shaw
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