When posting to some mailing lists, eg. gnats-bugs@NetBSD.org, or people (like parents) for that matter might not be able to handle decrypting, verification, or stripping of public key attachment, see https://gnats.netbsd.org/cgi-bin/query-pr-single.pl?number=57860
It would be useful add flags to such a contact to either enable/disable preferred sending options for encryption, digital signature, or unknown (default).