Andreas Fuchs <asf@acm.org> writes:

> Eeeek. That would make it a little difficult to read mailing lists where
> people sign their mails by default (debian-devel, for example) while
> their keys are not in your keyring.

You can configure things so that if the key is not in your keyring
then it will be fetched (as your was) prior to being verified. Also I
run with verify turned on by default.