Pamela wrote:
> On 18:39 9 Apr 2021, Mike Duffy said:
>> On Fri, 09 Apr 2021 17:52:34 +0100, Pamela wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>> How does your whataboutery change the simplicity of reading the
>>> forger's signature and looking at the server in his headers, just
>>> as advised?
>>>
>>> The forger tells you how to check he's the forger and so it turns
>>> out. If only the rest of life was as simple as that. Simple as
>>> pie.
>>
>> The habitual forgers politely go out of their way to put at least
>> a nym in the headers so even newbies know it is someone different.
>
> That's hardly a rule and quite the opposite of what's been happening
> here.
>
> On the other hand, the forger tells you how to check he's the forger
> and so it turns out.
>
>> I take the approach that I don't have the time to check all the
>> headers. It's just people on the Internet (Pamela and the various
>> Bruces) who won't say their last names.
>
> If you don't have the time to do a quick check then feel free not to
> spend time writing that you don't have that time.
>

That's about as close to ass sniffing I've seen, outside the master
doctor.