[Boris Kimel]

Why send signed messages to this list? My Outlook keeps crashing on every signed message...

You likely have a problem with Outlook, and this is where the problem should be solved. This is not a good reaction, in general, for one to ask everybody to adapt to his/her broken software. (I'm sensible to the issue of attitude, as over the years, many correspondents asked me to write bad French after they themselves had problems displaying diacriticics.) People might have good reasons for signing their messages. I used to do it many years ago, then stopped once my key was sufficiently counter-signed (that is, after a good authentication was built on my key, which is the basis of confidence in such public signing systems). But nowadays, I see that many forged messages are sent in my name. My usual correspondents are never fooled, of course, but it surely gives me the temptation of signing my messages for good, one of these days. It is possible that we will all have to do such a move, progressively, to protect ourselves against email abuse, which sadly, is more and more perverse and ubiquitous. P.S. - Yet, abusers will likely develop a speciality at pirating keys, through the weaknesses of various systems. The battle has not started yet. -- François Pinard http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/~pinard