Steve -- ...and then Steve Kennedy said... % % Why does everyone send signed emails to the list, is it always % necessary ?
It all depends on your point of view. I feel that it is and sign everything except for mail to a few recipients (conveniently noted by send-hooks, of course!). % % It slows reading down, and digests dont look so nice ... I'm sorry for the sake of the digests (well, for that of their readers, anyway), and that's one place where I would support stripping any attachments (I'd hate to have to page through a digest with some of these insane muttrc posts attached, for instance) even at the loss of data or verifiability; the original message still exists in the archives even if it's not presented in the digest and so it's not much of a loss. Now, if the digest were actually a MIME encapsulation of a bunch of messages and they were essentially read through the attachment browser, there would be no need to strip attachments and the digests' appearance wouldn't be affected, either, so I have to figure it's the same old "paste-a-from-and-subject-and-then-the-text-into-one-big-email" method that digests have been using for years. My answer to that is "you should have gotten the original messages" :-) even though that seems to not work for some. % % I can understand that certain things should be signed, but it % seems more than not are now signed. But it's useful as well as being just plain good security practice... Remember the virus that hit the list a while back, and the kudos to those "who noted that it wasn't signed and so [he] didn't send it"? Here we even have a working example in our experience... % % Steve % % -- % NetTek Ltd Flat 2, 43 Howitt Road, Belsize Park, London NW3 4LU, UK % tel +44-(0)20 7483 1169 fax +44-(0)20 7483 2455 mob 07775 755503 % SMS steve-pager (at) gbnet.net [body] gpg 1024D/468952DB 2001-09-19 :-D -- David T-G * It's easier to fight for one's principles (play) [EMAIL PROTECTED] * than to live up to them. -- fortune cookie (work) [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.justpickone.org/davidtg/ Shpx gur Pbzzhavpngvbaf Qrprapl Npg!
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