"Rafael 'Dido' Sevilla" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > 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?
Yeah, sorry, ): *signed* it is... >> 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. I see. So I guess there's no other way than to figure out a way to selectively sign mails based on where I'm sending to, huh? I think gnus can handle that... Thanks for the bit, I'll look it up in the archives. =) -- ZAK B. ELEP <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- <http://zakame.spunge.org> 1024D/FA53851D 1486 7957 454D E529 E4F1 F75E 5787 B1FD FA53 851D -- Running Debian GNU+Linux testing/unstable. GnuPG signed mail preferred.
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