How irritating are anon encrypted pgp messages

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This is something I have been wondering about for a while:

How rude is it for people to post (or mail to a mailing list) anon messages
encrypted with someone's PGP key?  It makes it easy for the receiver to
obtain it, but how irritating is it to people?


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Personally, I don't like them.  I can see that there are times when someone
would not want anyone to know what the recipient's email address is, but it is
just more noise to filter for everyone else.  I'm on several other mailing
lists, so I already filter through a couple of hundred messages a day.  What
makes it worse is that they are *all* downloaded to my Duo before filtration
begins.  The last thing I want is more disk space eaten up for off topic
messages, and I can't think anything more off topic than messages no one can
read.

Just my two cents worth.

jpb

Joseph Block writes:

> Personally, I don't like them.  I can see that there are times when someone
> would not want anyone to know what the recipient's email address is, but it is
> just more noise to filter for everyone else.  I'm on several other mailing

The situation here is that _sender_ does not know the e-mail address
of the recipient!

Whether these messages are a good thing or not is a different issue,
but the fact is that what are seeing here is the use of the
Cypherpunks mailing list as a "message pool."

--Tim May



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Tim writes:
> I wrote:
> > Personally, I don't like them.  I can see that there are times when someone
> > would not want anyone to know what the recipient's email address is, but it is
> > just more noise to filter for everyone else.  I'm on several other mailing
> 
> The situation here is that _sender_ does not know the e-mail address
> of the recipient!
> 
> Whether these messages are a good thing or not is a different issue,
> but the fact is that what are seeing here is the use of the
> Cypherpunks mailing list as a "message pool."

If there is demand for this, someone should set up a message pool list, not
use cypherpunks.  If there was a pool list, I'm sure it would get traffic.