Damian Gerow <dgerow@afflictions.org> wrote:
I've been meaning to ask about this for a while, but...
Thus spake Eugen Leitl (eugen@leitl.org) [11/05/06 05:01]: : [demime 1.01d removed an attachment of type application/pgp-signature which had a name of signature.asc]
demime on cypherpunks? I know I'm just a user, but this is one of the last places I'd expect to see MIME attachments, thus PGP signatures, stripped.
Point of order: it's not at all necessary to use MIME in order to PGP sign a message. As far as the why: this is a carryover from the days of the LNE.com node; Eric's filter set was very popular and made for a very maintainable node, and so I've continued to use it. I suppose I might consider looking into making exceptions for attachments with particular MIME types, but that's probably opening a nasty can of worms. Personally I'd rather forget that MIME exists and continue to strip all of that crap. Holy shit, I'm turning into Tim. "MIME encrustations" indeed! -- Riad S. Wahby rsw@jfet.org