From: sdw@meaddata.com (Stephen Williams)
Date: Sat, 15 Jan 94 15:33:06 PST
To: jerry@terminus.us.dell.com (Jeremy Porter)
Subject: Re: Using the tools we have
In-Reply-To: <9401152235.AA04772@terminus.us.dell.com>
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> In article <2h9gen$55r@uudell.us.dell.com> you write:
> >	
> >From owner-cypherpunks@toad.com  Sat Jan 15 19:33:39 1994
> >From: VACCINIA@UNCVX1.OIT.UNC.EDU
> >Subject: Using the tools we have
> >To: cypherpunks@toad.com
> >
> >The detman has been blathering for weeks about how he will subvert the list
> >and we now see all sorts of rants impugning the reputations of certain 
> >cypherpunks. Postings are reiterated with the message that so and so said 
> >this or that and this person is a nazi, or some such drivel. I have no idea 
> >who said what because many of the technowizards don't avail themselves of the 
...
> One usefull thing that could be done, is to design a list, that will
> only post pgp-signed messages.  To  subscribe to the list, you send
> your pgp public key, and it sends back its private key.  In order
...
>  Jeremy Porter  -----------------  Systems Enginneering ----
>  Dell Computer Corp. --- jerry@terminus.us.dell.com --------
>  ------------------------------------------------------------
>   Support your Second Amendment rights to encryption technology. 

You've given me an idea.  I felt the edges of it when discussing my
plans for an endorsement message enhancement to Netnews/INN/Tin/...

Instead of controlling every message that gets posted, why don't we
instead allow email endorsements.  Each message has a unique message
id, is fairly easy to identify, and could of course be PGP signed.

What if we hacked a .procmailrc to 'mark' (Subject change?) or filter
messages that weren't marked properly (say they were signed but not by
the key you had for that person) OR those that received a later
endorsement (positive/neg/typing) from someone on your trusted list.

(ED: sorry for the long lines, I sometimes feel the thought is more
clear that way.)

Acting on an endorsement after you had received a message means
modifying a mailbox, which needs to be done carefully.  You might want
to track where the message went if using automatic sorting in
procmail.

What do you think?

sdw
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