At 2:19 AM +0000 12/11/00, Anonymous wrote:
On Sun, Dec 10, 2000 at 04:46:05PM -0800, Tim May wrote:
Fact is, PGP and SMIME went the _wrong_ direction when message signings started to require RTF, MIME, HTML, etc. (I realize these are not all the same thing. The real issue is "non-ASCII.")
Apparently, Eudora didn't manage to implement MIME properly within 7 years. That is unfortunate, but MIME is the right direction nevertheless.
A MIME-compliant mail reader without PGP support would just display the message without the signature, and possible add a note that there was a signature that could not be verified (or that an attachment could not be displayed).
You're missing the point. Several people set their systems to provide their _entire_ messages as attachments. Riad Wahby acknowledged this, and fixed it. Others did not, so I started filtering them out. Eudora Pro handles MIME just fine. If someone provides a message as an attachment, whether of type JPEG or type MW, then clicking on that attachment icon launches a JPEG viewer or Microsoft Word or whatever. My point is that I don't see the point of expecting readers of a mailing list to open a message in MW or whatever. In-lining usually solves this problem. Signatures, if they exist, can either be verified with another program or with plug-ins to speed up the process. --Tim May -- (This .sig file has not been significantly changed since 1992. As the election debacle unfolds, it is time to prepare a new one. Stay tuned.)