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On Sat, 14 Dec 2002 16:10:38 -0500 your time, you said: ACM> This is not the case with S/MIME. Can you suppress sending your public ACM> key block repeatedly and with every message you send using S/MIME? In ACM> fact, this is my main problem with using it. That's not the point here at all really, although it is a valid point of course. So are you suggesting that The Bat! should not support S/MIME? And are you suggesting or leading up to a banning of S/MIME use on the list? ACM> You sent an entire message amounting to 650 kbytes. This means that you ACM> can send a decently large message that is within 3kbytes in size. Think ACM> of the cummulative bandwidth consumption ...<snip> So what are you saying? That unless it is plain text and pgp signed then it isn't or shouldn't be welcomed? If users want to join the list and ask questions about and learn how to use S/MIME then I don't think it should be discouraged on the basis of bandwidth issues. But if bandwidth really is an issue then you are in a real predicament as to ban the use of one method would automatically suggest favour toward the other, which people can read in many ways of course. I want to be able to securely communicate with as many people as possible, and if that means using both PGP and S/MIME so be it. Yes, with S/MIME you send your cert. over and over and over, unlike PGP, and of course extra bandwidth is used in the process, I concede that. But that's the way to propagate the standard though, and of course the more visible it is the more likely it is to become commonplace, regardless of any bandwidth issues. To to be frank, the bandwidth issue doesn't bother me in the slightest, and I don't think it bothers that many people either, in my unverifiable view. Nonetheless, I accept that it may be of concern for the list owner though, and well, someone will have to make some tough decisions in that case. - -- Slán, Simon @ theycallmesimon.co.uk ****************************************** PGP Key: http://pgp.theycallmesimon.co.uk/ Faffing about with TB! v1.62 on W2K SP3 #1249. Lars Dewy I Mrs Quo ¶ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Comment: Privacy is freedom. Protect your freedom with PGP! Comment: KeyID: 0x5C7E8966 Comment: Fingerprint: 851C F927 0296 FF1C 70A2 474F CB6E 6FFE 5C7E 8966 iQA/AwUBPfut08tub/5cfolmEQKI3gCg02XCkGZsDIpC1XAE7Ezc4qvK4cgAnAyr 2e4LXH1nG9Je0wnESrIYQ0// =cOnk -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature
