in reply to Registering your nick on other sites

While I'll be put out if I ever catch anyone using ichimunki on another site or anywhere really. I think I'd only want it registered on sites I actually use (like Slashdot or Perl Monks). For some reason I haven't registered it on Kuro5hin or E2 and I'd have to wonder if it's available as an AIM screen name (I've probably registered it and forgotten the password). I suppose to be safe I should grab ichimunki@hotmail.com and ichimunki@yahoo.com and any other thing like that where someone could be impersonating me.

I've already got it as ichimunki.com, but AFAIK no one's gone after .net or .org. Names on the internet are always going to be a problem. I think my favorite is when I get mail for the .net or .org versions of a domain I have as .com.

Here's an idea I'd almost rather see, a Tk-script that lets me edit a posting, spell-check it, then creates a GPG digital signature for it, and appends that to the message so I can cut and paste into the input box and be certain that imposters cannot imitate me without my private key. (Is this even possible? I still don't quite get how public key encryption works.)
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Re: (ichimunki) Re: Registering your nick on other sites
by arhuman (Vicar) on Apr 06, 2001 at 21:39 UTC

    To my mind you will only provide a WAY to discriminate a fake ichimunki from the real one
    ( if you're the real one ;-)
    But will people WANT to check if it's the real ichimunki by looking for your sign in the post ?
    Will they ever KNOW that you always sign your post ?

    If I go on betterperlmonks.org (sorry for the blasphem vroom)
    create an ichimunki account and start posting crap,
    any betterperlmonks.org user that will see your signed posts here on perlmonks will think :
    'why is he signing his post ?'
    and maybe 'hey his posts seem to improve'
    but they will more likely think 'oh no ! ichimunki is posting crap here too...'

    Now for a purely technical aspect :
    I don't think that the average 'joe' knows how to use PGP,
    (I'm not even talking about GPG...)
    And I don't think that those who knows will make the effort to try to get your public key (where ?)
    to verify your sign post (why ?)...

    "Only Bad Coders Badly Code In Perl" (OBC2IP)
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