Re: MIME and Cypherpunks
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
Thus spake Riad S. Wahby (rsw@jfet.org) [11/05/06 05:57]: : > 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. Yeah, I know. It's just ... Well, I'd rather not enter that debate, because I don't care that much. I'll just tell my MUA to go inline for cypherpunks. :-/ : 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. Meh. You're running the list. If I really didn't like it, I could always set up another node.
On Thu, May 11, 2006 at 05:47:05AM -0400, Riad S. Wahby wrote:
Point of order: it's not at all necessary to use MIME in order to PGP sign a message.
Yes, but it's legal (according to RFC2015 or somesuch), and convenient. It doesn't clutter the mail body, and mutt happens to verify the signatures automatically. Couldn't get it to verify inline digsigs.
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 have no problem with demime -- it just screws up text formatting.
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!
You rang? http://groups.google.com/groups/search?q=author%3A%22Tim+May%22&start=0&scoring=d&hl=en&lr=&safe=off&num=10& -- Eugen* Leitl <a href="http://leitl.org">leitl</a> http://leitl.org ______________________________________________________________ ICBM: 48.07100, 11.36820 http://www.ativel.com 8B29F6BE: 099D 78BA 2FD3 B014 B08A 7779 75B0 2443 8B29 F6BE
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