OT: USENET and cryptography (was: "annoying" inline gpg signatures)

Anthony David adavid at adavid.com.au
Sun Apr 9 12:21:41 UTC 2006


On Sun, Apr 09, 2006 at 10:28:10AM +0000, Reinhard Tartler wrote:
> Kenneth P. Turvey wrote:
> > What
> > we really need is an update of the USENET protocols.  There are a number
> > of problems with NNTP that could be addressed using cryptography.
> 
> I think that if existing newreaders would finally support MIME, the
> world could be a lot better.

AFAIR, GNUS support MIME. Why would you use MIME in a newspost anyway?
I reckon it opens up a greater can of worms just to support S/MIME.

> 
> Unfortunately, the development of newsreaders has stalled in the past.
> I love slrn, but the development stalled. 
> 
> > We could have a relatively spam free USENET with working cancels and
> > supersedes, and a common set of procedures for creating and removing
> > groups, authenticating users and so on.  
> 
> Yes, if they would be used consistently, usenet would be the ideal place
> to discuss. Unfortunately, it is not used consistently, and a common
> cause for off-topic chatter like this subthread.
> 
> > Unfortunately, getting this all to work and be adopted would be nearly
> > impossible due to the resistance of current USENET users.  
> 
> I don't think that users are resistant. I think it is more a problem
> that the current newsreaders and MUA aren't integrated well, and their
> interface to the user is horrible, which makes USENET very unattractive
> to lots of users.
> 
> Greetings,
> 	Reinhard
> 
> 
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