Well, I finally downloaded B3 (yes, this is still beta). Observations:

* The gpg mail bundle [aka the gpg plugin for Mail 2.01) has better options (like auto-decrypt of msgs by Keychain), and is MUCH more practical (like full display of signing and encrypting keys. So you can guess which one I disabled.

Yes, in PGP9 there is a manual mode for those of us running proxies, but as I state above the PGP Mail plugin is CLUNKY. If you're still an Entourage user their scripts are fine, but if you're in Mail 2 already, disable the plugin from PGP.com and use the other one.

* The UI is very pretty, but that's not why I bought PGP. I'm sure they paid their UI people very well, and there's a lot of back patting going on there. But it's not useful.

* Again, encrypted chat is wonderful if anyone would use it. For the home / casual user, the price is too high, and there's too much bloat in PGP to justify this. Corp users will have to standardize on this beast or face conflicts from other plugins, etc.

* This is just my 2 yen, but MacOSX has outgrown PGP. We have FileVault / SecureVM in Tiger, and the ability to make AES-128 disk images in Disk Utility! Couple this with FREE downloads of GPG packages that do not have to be compiled, and the Mail plugin (search this site), and it quickly becomes apparent that PGP 9 is merely a 'secure tax' for Windoze users.

* PGP.com also deserves to be roundly slammed for how they have [not] handled upgraders. Add to the fact that you have to pay for questionable support practices and this becomes a no-brainer to stick with the open source alternative. Too bad the Win32 users don't have this choice, but then again this is PGP.com's current market.

For the record, I gave PGP 7 - 8.x 4 stars. It's too bad PGP.com drank the Kool-Aid on this version, I want 8.x support back.