Alexander Skwar writes: > So sprach »Steve Kennedy« am 2002-01-07 um 12:52:25 +0000 : > > Why does everyone send signed emails to the list, is it always > > necessary ? > > No, it's not. Personal mails and "important" mails should be signed > and/or encrypted. However mailinglist mails should not be encrypted, > because those mails are not important, and thus the overhead for signing > (both processing time and bandwidth/hd-space wise) is just wasted.
Exactly. I have been on this list since 1997, and I'm unsubscribing because - too many mails on the list are signed, which slows down processing immensly - there's just too much noise
