[Enigmail] My Bad, Sorry About That

Faramir faramir.cl at gmail.com
Sun Aug 24 23:45:42 PDT 2008


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Robert J. Hansen escribió:
> Robert J. Hansen wrote:
>> Faramir, I've tried to explain this twice.  I don't know how to explain
>> it any clearer, I'm sorry.
> 
> I'll make one last pass at it.

  Now I got it, we were looking at the problem from a different point of
view, you see it as a system, I was looking at it as a simple user.


> To you, the idea of joining an encrypted mailing list (of the sort John
> Moore is running) means "oh, I have to download 500 keys, that's a
> little bit of a pain, but I can do it."  Your focus is on you.
> 
> My focus is on the network.  If I'm part of that network of 500 users
> and you join, I get terrified.  I get terrified because the system is
> coming apart at the seams already, and each additional user makes the
> problem _exponentially worse_.

  Ok, we had different focus... now I get the point.

> If you like, talk to one of your computer science professors about this.
>  This is a very well known problem in network topology, and it tends to
> pop up all over the place in computer science.

  I have not studied networks yet... Probably next year I will, and
then, hopefully, I will get used to think considering this focus...

  I would ask how is this kind of problems solved, but I figure there is
not an standard way to do it... and we are going way out of topic
(anyway, I think it is an interesting subject...).

 Best Regards
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