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----- Forwarded message : It seems to me that biglumber.com is a horribly under-utilized tool. Yes, it's a little rough around the edges and could use some tweaks to its interface but on the whole it is a very good foundation for privacy enthusiasts (not just GnuPG, but PGP also). As it stood until a couple of days ago, only a few cities seemed to take the site seriously at all. Right now there are somewhere between 40-50 active GnuPG users in TriLUG. Better than half of them are willing to meet up for impromptu key signings. But they weren't listed anywhere. Biglumber.com is the logical place to advertise that availability. Inciting a little friendly competition between the LUGs is actually beneficial all around. GnuPG gets exposure. In the Philly & Triangle regions it shoots down the old argument "I can't use GnuPG/PGP because nobody else uses it." PLUG & TriLUG both get exposure (which PLUG has already enjoyed) as being good resources for learning about privacy-enhancing software. And who knows, maybe a little friendly competition will arouse the interest of other user groups and get them in on it. This could only mean more key signing events, more GnuPG evangelism, and (on the Linux side) more people being exposed to Open Source operating systems like Linux as a better platform for protecting your privacy rights. Everybody wins. C. Magnus Hedemark http://trilug.org/~chrish PGP Key fingerprint = 984D 9A88 3D60 016F BE01 1506 60FB 85E1 9ABD 96F6 ------------------------------------------------------- At present, I can only see 2 DCLUG members on biglumber, myself and Jon Melhuish. In fact, most cities listed for England seem to only have 1 representative. It'd be nice to see a few more familiar names there. -- Neil Williams ============= http://www.codehelp.co.uk http://www.dclug.org.uk http://www.wewantbroadband.co.uk/
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