Re: Signatures and MIME Attachments Getting Out of Hand

At 7:16 PM -0500 12/3/00, Riad S. Wahby wrote:

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Tim May wrote:

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If messages are signed, great care should be taken to ensure that the signatures do not in any way interfere with the normal presentation of good old ASCII text, the lingua franca of the online world.

The problem you're seeing arises because your mailer and others like it (Outlook, etc.) do not follow the PGP/MIME standard (RFC 2015, Oct. 1996), which calls for the support of the content-types application/pgp-encrypted, application/pgp-signature, and application/pgp-keys. Unfortunately, many of us use mailers that make some attempt at supporting standards, and in the end you just can't read our mail.

You are so right. It is pointless for me to argue that you folks should stick to ASCII. Therefore, it is best that I simply take the 5-6 recent posters involved and filter them out of my incoming mail. As each new MIMEoid appears, I'll add him to the filter file. Bye! --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.)