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On Sat, 2011-10-08 at 14:09 -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> On 10/08/2011 10:59 AM, Jon Masters wrote:

> > Good point about being pedantic, and the rest of your comments :) I
> > understand that I'm taking this a little far but I'm just trying to
> > point out one particular gaping hole in the way these things are
> > currently done. One reason I stopped doing keysigning parties is that I
> > realized they were mostly a show. You turn up and get a key signed and
> > then everyone is impressed that you're in the strong set...wupdedoo. Not
> > that I've anything against signing stuff on kernel.org and trying to
> > improve things (I've long directly signed everything on master with my
> > own keys in slight violation of policy, but that turned out to right).
> >
> 
> Not so much in violation of policy... we just couldn't get people to do it.

Right, no offense to you intended, and I know you tried :) I suspect
that won't be a huge problem now...or I hope so.

Jon.