Deleting obsolete uids

[Horacio MG]

On Wed, 19 Jul 2000, Jordi Mallach wrote:

> [...]
>  Shortly after that, the university machine died,

O.T.: Chronicle of an announce death?  };)

> so my key has now at least 1 uid I would like to get rid of. I
> deleted it from my secret key, but I can't do the same for the
> pubkey. Some people have signed it so each time I update my key I
> get this uid back into my pubkey.

You mean when you send the updated key to the keyserver, right?  That's
the way key servers deal with key's updates:  they *merge* the updated
key contents with the already stored old key, therefore they only record
new additions, but don't record any deletions.  Nasty.

> Is there a solution for this, or do I have to live with this
> dangling uid forever?

ab origen ad aeternum


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