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  1. Re:For anyone who's interested ... by lyle_hanson · · Score: 1 · on Nethack 3.4.1 Released

    I for one really enjoy playing on a public server. It's fun at home, but on a public server you're sort of competing/participating with others. And the bones files you come across from others makes it interesting also.

    FWIW, I play on nethack.alt.org and the website lists all kinds of cool statistics and rankings.

  2. news.admin.net-abuse.sightings already exists... by tskirvin · · Score: 2, Informative · on SpamArchive.org Launched
    I've moderated a Usenet newsgroup that does this kind of stuff for the last six years now (since Nov 1996). (Yes, I know others have stated some of this stuff, but it's worth mentioning it again.)
  3. Another public nethack server in US by dtype · · Score: 1 · on /dev/null/nethack Tournament 2001
    Just wanted to take the opportunity to advertise another public nethack server at http://dtype.org/nethack/ which just went up in the past couple of weeks as well.

    This server will be around for awhile, and has great low-latency connections to the US and North America, and decent ones to more patient people elsewhere.

  4. Another mirror by dtype · · Score: 2, Informative · on MS DRM Version 2 - Cracked

    In the spirit of "make sure it says online", I've made yet one more mirror at http://dtype.org/available/657.zip.

  5. Re:Snailmail is dying? Sounds kinda like *BSD... n by WhiteDragon · · Score: 1 · on Anthrax To Kill Snail Mail

    Email does have reliable authentication, including OpenPGP and S/MIME. Postal mail has nothing but a postmark indicating which city/zip code the letter was sent from.

    As for how many people use OpenPGP, a rough estimate can be obtained from the number of keys known to the keyservers: Number of keys: 1,577,742 according to a report from August, 2001. Also, keep in mind that not everyone who uses pgp or gnupg submits their key to a keyserver.

  6. Accepting signed e-mail only by KjetilK · · Score: 1 · on Barney vs. Right to Satire
    Well, I had this funny idea the other day. E-mail is easily forged, so serving a nastygram pr. unsigned e-mail shouldn't have any implications. Well, they do send stuff pr. s-mail as well, but lets not go into that.

    If you get a nastygram, tell them you will only assume the nastygram is real given that it carries a verifyable PGP signature. Make sure you are in the large strong set, then I would say they have a reasonable chance of get keys signed so that they can serve you a nastygram pr. signed e-mail, wouldn't you?

    Well, if they start getting PGP and set it up, sit back and enjoy the confusion.... :-)

  7. keyserver.net and wwwkeys.pgp.net synced? by KjetilK · · Score: 1 · on PGP/GnuPG June Key Analysis

    According to the FAQ, the analysis is based on keys in the pgp.net ring. I haven't been able to figure out for sure if the pgp.net ring also syncs with the servers in the keyserver.net ring. Do anybody here know this for sure?

  8. Read the disclaimer by XNormal · · Score: 2 · on PGP/GnuPG June Key Analysis
    From the explanation page:
    NOTE: This does not mean that you should universally trust keys with a low MSD. This is merely a relative measurement for statistical purposes.

    True, trust is not transitive and anyone can sign my key without even knowing me. But the fact is that very few people actually do that, so for statistical purposes only it still means something.


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  9. Re:PGP at work: by dtype · · Score: 1 · on PGP/GnuPG June Key Analysis
    We'll also stop that confusing practice of confronting people with password prompts from now on. If we just assume they are who they claim, we're less likely to have stress and confusion.

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    Drew Streib, dtype.org

  10. Re:GnuPG/PGP Not Completely Compatible? by dtype · · Score: 2 · on PGP/GnuPG June Key Analysis
    That topic is well covered in the compatibility section of the GnuPG FAQ. The issue is compatible encryption algorithms. Since it is easy to specify which algorithms to use, this really isn't a problem. (at least hasn't been for me yet)

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    Drew Streib, dtype.org