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On Wednesday 2 March 2011 at 4:07:19 AM, in <mid:a27b6155-d269-47f2-923d-873e0c3f7...@sixdemonbag.org>, Robert J. Hansen wrote: >> The benefits of your phone number being ex-directory >> are the benefits that derive from it being harder for >> people to obtain your phone number without your >> permission, harder to link the number to your >> name/address, and impossible to find your address or >> phone number by looking in the phone book. > Here the analogy breaks down. Generally speaking there > is only one telephone directory for a given geographic > area, which makes it possible for you to keep your > phone number private by keeping it out of that one > directory. Once, maybe. But for quite a few years (in the UK at least) there have been many competing directory enquiries services, and more recently the online versions as well. Choosing to be ex-directory is a binding instruction to your telephone company not to release your number to any such services. > Email doesn't work the same way. There is no > centralized directory. It is also much easier to create new email addresses than it is to change phone numbers. And more practical to have multiple or short-life email addresses than is the case with phone numbers. > To keep your email private > requires that you fastidiously keep it out of > thousands, tens of thousands of directories. This > doesn't strike me as very practical. For somebody who uses the same email address to communicate with many contacts and keeps the same email address for a long time, that is true. For somebody like me who uses various different email addresses and replaces some of them on a regular basis it is plenty practical enough. > The benefits of keeping a telephone number out of the > directory do not seem analogous to keeping an email > address off the certificate servers. Not exactly analogous (hence my "admittedly not a direct comparison" when I introduced it) but I have drawn enough parallels for it to be a relevant comparison. Of course there are differences. - -- Best regards MFPA mailto:expires2...@ymail.com Vegetarian: Indian word for lousy hunter!!! -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iQE7BAEBCgClBQJNbpmnnhSAAAAAAEAAVXNpZ25pbmdfa2V5X0lEIHNpZ25pbmdf a2V5X0ZpbmdlcnByaW50IEAgIE1hc3Rlcl9rZXlfRmluZ2VycHJpbnQgQThBOTBC OEVBRDBDNkU2OSBCQTIzOUI0NjgxRjFFRjk1MThFNkJENDY0NDdFQ0EwMyBAIEJB MjM5QjQ2ODFGMUVGOTUxOEU2QkQ0NjQ0N0VDQTAzAAoJEKipC46tDG5pOmsD/1/V 0tg8BJz1uLyfHWfcQq3l/1eaIxBfa3+z3d68LYQ5ZcsoBNlJxAd/80FKmBb0a83r 8h7EuQsJZcHTLfPTUjB6dS1D8ffqp/e3K/lCQSzy4yccgiw1QwTPzf3C1L3THePa LDAqa2PSctUip578m/yRehrcR2E2CYt1NOlpfWEM =1E41 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users