Re: [OT] Why are you using the GPG / PGP keys?

2013-05-26 Thread Julian H. Stacey
From: Hauke Laging > Am So 26.05.2013, 16:36:00 schrieb Eray Aslan: > > > The college kids I talk to nowadays use email mostly for either > > - official business > > - communicating with their parents > >=20 > > and that's it. Re. ~email is dieing~. Similar false "Unix is dieing" propesies

Re: [OT] Why are you using the GPG / PGP keys?

2013-05-26 Thread Robert J. Hansen
On 5/26/2013 11:12 AM, Hauke Laging wrote: > E-Mail will still be there in ten years. In related news, you can still buy buggy whips: http://www.amazon.com/Abetta-Buggy-Whip-Black-66/dp/B002HIX7P8 Nobody is saying email will go away. I've only said that email is seen by the upcoming generation

Re: [OT] Why are you using the GPG / PGP keys?

2013-05-26 Thread Hauke Laging
Am So 26.05.2013, 16:36:00 schrieb Eray Aslan: > The college kids I talk to nowadays use email mostly for either > - official business > - communicating with their parents > > and that's it. But will they use more or less email after college? The kind of communication changes over time. It did

Re: [OT] Why are you using the GPG / PGP keys?

2013-05-26 Thread Eray Aslan
On 26/05/13 13:50, Zece Anonimescu wrote: > According to Technology Review [1] some 154 billion emails are sent each > day. So much for a dying technology. I rest my case. The college kids I talk to nowadays use email mostly for either - official business - communicating with their parents and th

Re: [OT] Why are you using the GPG / PGP keys?

2013-05-26 Thread Jean-David Beyer
On 05/26/2013 06:50 AM, Zece Anonimescu wrote: > Zece Anonimescu: >> Robert J. Hansen: >>> Email is dying and has been for years. Ask a college student today[...] >> >> I don't like the mass media estimates: the next big thing, the yesterday >> thing, the dying thing. I thought for a good ten minu

Re: [OT] Why are you using the GPG / PGP keys?

2013-05-26 Thread Zece Anonimescu
Zece Anonimescu: > Robert J. Hansen: >> Email is dying and has been for years. Ask a college student today[...] > > I don't like the mass media estimates: the next big thing, the yesterday > thing, the dying thing. I thought for a good ten minutes and I could not > find ONE single thing that was