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On Sun, 12 Oct 2003 22:22:30 -0400, Rik Thomas wrote:

> > Seriously, every time I post a message to this list I get two emails
> > back that my mail was rejected by Sturman Industries because of an
> > executable file attachment which in turn our server bounces back.
> > 
> > The "executable" is a PGP signature which is enabled by default. 
> > 
> > No big deal. It's just a little more noise. I must remind myself of FIDO
> > 102 - "not to be easily annoyed." (101 was "not to excessively annoy
> > others").
> 
> Since we are being pedantic...
> 
> And it is also considered bad form to digitally sign a post to a mailing
> list.  Please refrain from doing so, all attachments to mailing lists
> for that matter are bad form.  

The first time I hear that. 

PGP/MIME or cleartext signatures are common practice, especially among
people who are sick of receiving complaints in private mail after some
spammer or idiot has abused a valid e-mail address again and sent
junk/virus to lists or individuals.

By signing messages automatically I want to make sure that recipients,
who only know me from mailing-lists, are sceptical when they receive
an unsigned message with my address/name in the headers. That seems to
work. [Instead of receiving complaints, I am notified about abuse of
my address occasionally. :)]

I disable signatures where people know whether a message is from me
actually or whether headers are fake.

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