From: Rick Busdiecker <rfb@lehman.com>
Date: Thu, 1 Dec 94 19:49:36 PST
To: "Timothy C. May" <tcmay@netcom.com>
Subject: 1% suspicion
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    From: "Timothy C. May" <tcmay@netcom.com>
    Date: Wed, 30 Nov 1994 13:14:36 -0800 (PST)
    
    I suspect fewer than 1% of all messages have their sigs checked.

What do you mean?  If you mean that fewer than 1% of the signed
messages that are sent to cypherpunks, you're almost certainly
incorrect.  I read over 1% of the messages on this list and if a
message is signed, with either a header signature or a big-ugly-block
signature, it's checked before I get to read it.

If you count seperate deliveries as seperate messages then you're
almost certainly correct, although it seems like an uninteresting data
point.  If you're talking about clear-signed messages sent to the net
as a whole rather than just this list, I think it's an interesting
question, but I can't imagine what you're basing your suspicion on.

			Rick