"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. =)

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