Global Directory signatures (was Re: GPG wants to check trustdb every day)

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On Tue, 28 Dec 2004, David Shaw wrote:

> If what the GD does could have an actual impact on the keyservers and 
> web of trust, then the keyservers and web of trust were already 
> hopelessly broken.
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how many key-servers support the no-modify flag? it's part of the standard 
and it could keep these auto-pilot sigs (and other unwanted sigs) from 
polluting the system, but it's not supported. to that extent, the key 
servers *are* hopelessly broken. biglumber is the closest i've seen to 
being a good implementation, in this regard.


> My concern is mainly about the aesthetics here.  It's unattractive (and 
> over time large) to have that many expired sigs on your key.
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not to downplay the matter of aesthetics, but it also becomes a usability 
issue if the UI is cluttered with unwanted information.


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