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Digital Signing seems the right direction

Thinking of the problem from the perspective of a user of Yahoo groups for organization communication, I find the digital signing approach much more palatable than the segmail approach. It's hard enough to get current correct email addresses in the list today. With my organizations it's inconceivable that each user would generate a special email address for use by the group. I don't think it's going to happen.

Some way to authenticate the sender, however, seems a solution more readily made transparent to the user. Getting a certificate as a one-time setup action is quite manageable--it's just another part of setting up an email account. The segmail approach would be an unending hassle, in contrast.

Sorry, but that's the way it looks to me...

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