On Sat, Feb 26, 2005 at 12:43:02AM +0800, Zak B. Elep wrote: > Now that's strange. I can't imagine any proper reason to not allow > GPG/MIME encrypted mail on a public list like this... Certainly this
Surely you mean *signed* mail? > isn't about bandwidth, as there are many larger and more active lists > that allow this content-type. I think it has to do with the fact that it's a newbie list. Back when I worked for my previous employer I also used to have a mania for signing all of my outbound mail as you seem to, and soon enough many noobs were wondering about these strange attachments that came from my mail and others. Coming from a Windows background they were rightly suspicious of all attachments, especially those they had never seen before. Some even had badly broken MUA's that would mishandle such messages badly. Someone even asked me to please stop signing my mail! IIRC it was in a discussion ca. 2001, if you have the patience to look it up. -- For they have sown the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind: it hath no stalk; the bud shall yield no meal: if so be it yield, the strangers shall swallow it up... http://stormwyrm.blogspot.com/ -- Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List [email protected] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) Official Website: http://plug.linux.org.ph Searchable Archives: http://marc.free.net.ph . To leave, go to http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/plug . Are you a Linux newbie? To join the newbie list, go to http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/ph-linux-newbie
