From: 3umoelle@informatik.uni-hamburg.de (Ulf =?iso-8859-1?Q?M=F6ller?=)
Date: Sun, 9 Nov 1997 08:33:18 +0800
To: iang@systemics.com (Ian Grigg)
Subject: Re: [SURVEY try again] pgp5.x / pgp2.x users
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> > 20 % of the users who have posted digitally signed messages that are
> >  available in my news spool (international and local newsgroups and
> >  mailing lists) use PGP 5.  The sample contains 545 unique e-mail
> >  addresses.  YMMV.
> 
> These are very interesting results.  One question: what are the groups
> about?  Are they close in to PGP topics or far away?

A number of them are crypto related, including the OpenPGP and a
German PGP users' mailing list.  Perhaps someone with access to a
large newsserver could grep for PGP signatures on the rec.* hierarchy?