MIME and Cypherpunks

[Eugen Leitl]

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&

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