Signatures and MIME Attachments Getting Out of Hand

[Declan McCullagh]

Both of you make reasonable points. (I read cypherpunks exclusively with
mutt, which does follow the standards, perhaps even fanatically.) 

But there seems to be little benefit to (a) signing messages, though
this admittedly a personal issue and (b) using MIME types when some
mailreaders will not support them. Heck, even leaving aside the Eudora
problem, MIME attachments would pose problems if I want to use
/bin/mail in a pinch.

-Declan
(living in the '80s)


On Sun, Dec 03, 2000 at 09:26:29PM -0500, Riad S. Wahby wrote:
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> Tim May <tcmay at got.net> wrote:
> > It is pointless for me to argue that you folks should stick to ASCII.
> 
> I agree that people should stick to ASCII, which is why my messages
> are completely made up of plain ASCII text.  I use the content-type
> fields only to make it easier for mailers that support MIME to handle
> my messages; in this case, it's text/plain, so everyone should display
> it the same.  Presumably that includes your mail client, as I've
> tested my mutt patch against Eudora Pro, and it seems to work fine.
> If it doesn't, please let me know how it misbehaves so that I can fix
> it.
> 
> - --
> Riad Wahby
> rsw at mit.edu
> MIT VI-2/A 2002
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