Signature Stripping a Bad Idea
Timothy C. May
tcmay at netcom.com
Thu Jul 28 15:46:38 PDT 1994
Reasons why attempts to automatically strip signatures a bad idea:
* Breaks the assumpton that remailers are not reaching in and
twiddling internals of a message.
* Maybe a signature is _desired_ at some point.
* Can lead to various problems, especially if implemented badly.
We've had this debate before, and the consensus was that treating a
remailed block as inviolate is a "win."
Certainly anyone can announce this "feature" as a service, sort of a
"Dummie's Remailer." Like censor services (that screen your mail),
such things are easily imaginable, but should never become the norm,
and should never be mandated.
--Tim May
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