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

[Atom 'Smasher']

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On Tue, 28 Dec 2004, Len Sassaman wrote:

> On Tue, 28 Dec 2004, Atom 'Smasher' wrote:
>
>>> * Ask the PGP folks to do something (what?)
>> ===============
>>
>> if you're in contact with them, at least ask what the hell they're 
>> thinking... this is a horrible pollution of the key-servers and WoT.
>
> How is this a pollution of the "web of trust"?
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every signature on a key becomes part of the WoT... if (when?) automated, 
expired or otherwise useless signatures start taking up a noticeable 
percentage of the signatures collected on keys, it's noise. it's pollution 
just as much as generating bogus keys and using them to sign real keys.


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