[clug-talk] Anyone else getting a lot of supposed bounced mail?

[Jesse Kline]

I don't really see the point. I have never seen anyone try to
impersonate a member of the CLUG executive, nor can I think of a good
reason why anyone would want to do it. I had GPG setup a few years ago,
but I couldn't find a good use for it. I love the idea of encryption,
because we know that there are a number of governments including our own
monitoring our transmissions, but unless there is a critical mass of
people using GPG, there is no point to it.

Jesse

On Sun, 2005-09-25 at 16:12 -0600, Jarrod Major wrote:
> On Sunday 25 September 2005 9:23 am, Trevor Lauder wrote:
> > On September 25, 2005 03:31 am, Travis Rousseau wrote:
> > > I was just thinking i maybe shouldn't of shown this because now anyone
> > > could anounce anything as if they are shawn to the list
> >
> > That is why everyone should sign emails with GPG or something similar :P
> 
> Here, here! I wholeheartedly agree with this. If the Executive started sending 
> email signed with their GPG keys and the rest of us on the list had their 
> public keys we would KNOW it was from them.
> 
> Fabulous idea Trevor, now why didn't I think of that? <grin>
> 
> Actually, I proposed the idea to the Executive I was a party to and I also 
> suggested this to Shawn a little while ago. Promoting the adoption of GPG 
> would be great for us all. We were a little technically challenged but 
> there's no excuse now.
> 
> GPG is available for any OS, so there's no limitation if you aren't running 
> Linux. Not all email clients support it but I _believe_ you can still check 
> the validity of a message regardless of what client you use. You may have to 
> jump through a couple hoops but you can do it.
> 
> How many more reasons do you need to give it a go? I can tutor anyone in the 
> use of GPG. This will depend on MY availability but I offer it to anyone out 
> there. I'm on IRC or Skype frequently so I could easily walk someone through 
> the mechanics of the procedure. Again, 
> http://www.gnupg.org/gph/en/manual.html is the best resource and it is 
> written very plainly. Not hard to get up and running with this. The only 
> thing to keep in mind is that if you want the ability to sign messages as 
> well as the ability to encrypt them, you will need to select DSA and ElGamel.
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