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Thanks, Michael - that's pretty clear, on both points :-) I'm pretty new to gpg so the explanation was very helpful. I really liked the ogg analogy, too :-) On Thu, Apr 06, 2017 at 06:52:06PM +0100, Michael Dorrington via list wrote: > On 06/04/17 08:30, Andy Wills wrote: > > Thanks, Michael, that's an interesting insight. Free software is > > certainly an interest of mine, but I guess what you're saying is that > > its more a social event than major advocacy for free culture? Worth > > knowing. > > Let's put it this way. If you were vegan and heard about a Vegan > Unconference then you would get very excited. The unconference would > allow people do recipes in front of an audience. Great, so you go to > the unconference. You look at the board and see a cake "talk", great. > You attend this and then the "presenter" then starts adding butter to > the cake mixture saying it is "better" this way. But you are vegan and > this meant to be a Vegan Unconference :( Next you see on the board a > "talk" on curry. Sounds great so you attend. The "presenter" of this > "talk" gets out a meat cleaver and starts chopping up chicken to put in > the curry. You object: "This is meant to be a Vegan Unconference!" and > the present says: "Well, there are vegetables in the curry."; that's > what it is like. > > > PS your key ID AAF8E3EF seems to have expired a while back? > > You need to refresh my key, I updated the expiry date a while ago and > pushed it up. > > Note, make sure you use the longer format to look up: > > 0xD7726C3EAAF8E3EF > > If you look up using the short format then you'll find the key that was > generated to clash with the short format. The "clasher" even went so > far as to sign the key with other clashing keys. This was done to many > many keys. They've been so kind as to revoke them now. > > Short: > > http://pgp.mit.edu/pks/lookup?search=0xAAF8E3EF&op=vindex&fingerprint=on > > Long: > > http://pgp.mit.edu/pks/lookup?search=0xD7726C3EAAF8E3EF&op=vindex&fingerprint=on > > M. > > -- > FSF member #9429 > http://www.fsf.org/register_form?referrer=9429 > http://www.fsf.org/about > "The Free Software Foundation (FSF) is a nonprofit with a worldwide > mission to promote computer user freedom and to defend the rights of all > free software users." > > -- > The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG > https://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list > FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/listfaq
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