On Tue, Jan 12, 2021 at 11:46 PM André Colomb <an...@colomb.de> wrote: > > Hi Stefan, > > On 12/01/2021 23.16, Stefan Claas wrote: > > Andre, please appoligze that I snipped your reply and that I only > > give a short reply, your explanations of server/client IO was > > welcome. > > I'm happy if it helps keeping this discussion constructive and not > turning into a flame war :-) > > > I think I do undertsand the American Way Of Life quite a bit, > > meaning that U.S. citizens are more open to privacy related > > things with security software then maybe us old Sauerkrauts, > > so to speak. Therefore I doubt that an IMHO very cool billion > > dollar company like GitHub, according to the reply I got > > from them, would see WKD usage as harm for their service, > > when used by many people. I could be wrong of course (in > > the future) > > (Me too Sauerkraut...) But you're missing the point. GitHub has no > business whatsoever with e-mail. WKD is all about e-mail and you are > probably among the first to use it for something unrelated to e-mail. > So they don't give a Koffer about some e-mail-related protocol except > for maybe implementing it (hopefully sometime) for their own employees / > @github.com e-mail account users.
It does not need to have an email business. > > Even if there would be no github.io pages available I hope > > that I showed here something interesting for the GnuPG > > community. > > Interesting yes, to the community, yes. But not to the billion dollar > company whose offer has nothing to do with e-mail. Not interesting in > the sense of "we will invest time and money and risk breaking other > users' setups by changing something in our infrastructure" because of > some creative WKD use case. > > By the way, there might be other free web hosting providers you could > use to serve a couple of bytes via HTTPS. It's very likely that they do > not have the same issues with wildcard domains and invalid TLS > certificates as github.io. Mmmh ... github.io or GitHub does *not* have issues with wildcard domains ... Regards Stefan _______________________________________________ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users
