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Re: Why Don’t We Clean Up The PGP Key Servers?

Darren Chamberlain — Thu, 16 Feb 2006 14:10:33 -0000

+1

I think the operators of the keyservers disagree, though. In the past, I spent some time on the gnupg-users list, and every once in a while someone would ask how to delete their old unusable keys, and the keyserver operators would chime in with reasons about why it was a bad idea. I don't remember most of the reasons, but I was never quite convinced.

Re: Why I Hate Mailing Lists

Darren Chamberlain — Thu, 05 Apr 2007 08:54:47 -0000

I've found that most of the lists I'm on -- which are mostly deeply technical lists hosted by the w3.org, sourceforge, perl.org, python.org, and so on -- tend to not have this problem. I don't know what kinds of lists you're on, of course, but I think the symptoms you are describing are symptoms of amateurism (not on your part; I mean the people who are setting up the autoresponders), and not inherent in the medium. For many lists, something like Google/Yahoo groups are probably the most appropriate -- I think that those systems do a good job at filtering out this kind of thing, while mailman and majordomo don't even attempt it.

@Marcin: I have never been able to get into web-based message boards and forums. The batch-based nature of the web simply doesn't translate well to an interactive conversation. I've yet to see a forums system that doesn't repeat all of the problems of usenet, without any of the solutions or optimizations that arose around usenet, like intelligent, protocol-specific clients and redistribution/local caching.

Re: Why Don’t We Clean Up The PGP Key Servers?

Darren Chamberlain — Thu, 16 Feb 2006 14:10:33 -0000

Re: Why I Hate Mailing Lists

Darren Chamberlain — Thu, 05 Apr 2007 08:54:47 -0000