I've only been on the list a few days now, and the net for only a few weeks. Plesae pardon the apology :) but could someone please explain to me why we are not putting an "Encryption: PGP <my-public-key>" line in the header of each of our messages as allowed by RFC 822 (which I was just reading for the first time today) ---Begin quote of RFC822 on Internet Message Header formats:--- 4.7.3. ENCRYPTED Sometimes, data encryption is used to increase the privacy of message contents. If the body of a message has been encrypted, to keep its contents private, the "Encrypted" field can be used to note the fact and to indicate the nature of the encryption. The first <word> parameter indicates the software used to encrypt the body, and the second, optional <word> is intended to aid the recipient in selecting the proper decryption key. This code word may be viewed as an index to a table of keys held by the recipient. ---End quote of RFC822 on Internet Message Header formats--- This would certainly solve many obvious problems. Of course, you all have seen this stuff for years and are not doing it so there must be some really interesting reason... ? Feel free to respond to me by email instead of posting to the group and if anyone else wants to know, I'll forward responses to them. If I've struck a chord, by all means let's discuss this as well as t-shirts. BTW, I'm looking forward to subscribing to alt.cypherpunks.merchandising :)