[89663] in Cypherpunks
Re: [SURVEY try again] pgp5.x / pgp2.x users
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ulf =?iso-8859-1?Q?M=F6ller?=)
Sat Nov 8 20:06:00 1997
To: iang@systemics.com (Ian Grigg)
Date: Sun, 9 Nov 1997 00:23:22 +0100 (GMT+0100)
Cc: cypherpunks@algebra.com
In-Reply-To: <3463E8AC.3F54BC7E@systemics.com> from "Ian Grigg" at Nov 8, 97 04:21:00 am
From: 3umoelle@informatik.uni-hamburg.de (Ulf =?iso-8859-1?Q?M=F6ller?=)
Reply-To: 3umoelle@informatik.uni-hamburg.de (Ulf =?iso-8859-1?Q?M=F6ller?=)
> > 20 % of the users who have posted digitally signed messages that are
> > available in my news spool (international and local newsgroups and
> > mailing lists) use PGP 5. The sample contains 545 unique e-mail
> > addresses. YMMV.
>
> These are very interesting results. One question: what are the groups
> about? Are they close in to PGP topics or far away?
A number of them are crypto related, including the OpenPGP and a
German PGP users' mailing list. Perhaps someone with access to a
large newsserver could grep for PGP signatures on the rec.* hierarchy?
