[Enigmail] help with how to use enigmail correctly

[John Clizbe]

Ringo Kamens wrote:
> John Clizbe wrote:
>> Ringo Kamens wrote:
>>> Upload your key to pgp.mit.edu 
> 
>> Really BAD choice of keyserver.
> 
>> pgp.mit.edu works fine for older keys. 
> 
>> PKS is neither RFC 2440 nor RFC 4880 compliant.
> 
>> Better to use the SKS keyserver pool - pool.sks-keyservers.net.

> Thanks for letting me know that, I didn't know it was so outdated. Why
> is it still up?

Marc Horowitz, the creator of PKS, stopped having anything to do with PKS in
2005 as I recall.

PKS was then taken over by volunteers who setup shop @ SourceForge. About this
time SKS caught on and PKS looked like it was too much effort to fix the known
bugs that caused damage let alone move ahead to RFC 2440 and the updated draft.

Folks dumped PKS and started moving to SKS.

Why is pgp.mit.edu still up?  Common reason in software: inertia.

PS: Please try to trim the quoted part of replies

-- 
John P. Clizbe                      Inet:John (a) Mozilla-Enigmail.org
You can't spell fiasco without SCO. hkp://keyserver.gingerbear.net  or
     mailto:pgp-public-keys at gingerbear.net?subject=HELP

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A:"An odd melody / island voices on the winds / surplus of vowels"

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