Re: [opensuse] Internet domain names with international characters (idn)
This looks nuts! Many of us have no convenient (or any) access to
characters like this. I can do some of them in a word-proceesor, but
certainly not in e-mail or Google, etc. Whose dumb idea was this,
anyway?
But I can, and so can all or most of my compatriots. Remember I was
talking about the .es top domain name.
See: áéíóúàèìòùâêîôûäëïöüñÁÉÍÓÚÀÈÌÒÙÄËÏÖÜÂÊÎÔÛçÇñÑ
and more: ćǵḱĺḿńṕŕśẃź
I can understand why people would want these localized characters in
their domain names. It totally makes sense from a localization
aspect.
On the other hand, I also really sympathize the frustration Doug expressed.
There may be a Compose key somewhere... but I've never heard of it
used it... being basically monolingual, with just enough knowledge of
Dutch, German and Spanish to get myself into trouble, I haven't
needed a Compose key, and I suspect the vast majority haven't
either. It might be a very good idea that this is enabled by default
in .Xmodmap (if it isn't already? I'm not at home right now so can't
check to see if Carlos' instructions work for me) and that this is
clearly documented somewhere (ie keystrokes for the different chars).
If we can make it clear that typing these chars is relatively easy to
do, this might ease the pain of the transition a little
C.
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Re: [opensuse] Internet domain names with international characters (idn)
Clayton wrote: This looks nuts! Many of us have no convenient (or any) access to characters like this. I can do some of them in a word-proceesor, but certainly not in e-mail or Google, etc. Whose dumb idea was this, anyway? But I can, and so can all or most of my compatriots. Remember I was talking about the .es top domain name. See: áéíóúàèìòùâêîôûäëïöüñÁÉÍÓÚÀÈÌÒÙÄËÏÖÜÂÊÎÔÛçÇñÑ and more: ćǵḱĺḿńṕŕśẃź I can understand why people would want these localized characters in their domain names. It totally makes sense from a localization aspect. I would have said it makes total sense from any aspect. What never made much sense was not being able to name my domain name using my own national language and alphabet. On the other hand, I also really sympathize the frustration Doug expressed. No problem, it's easily dealt with - I'll send him a Swiss keyboard. We've got tons of unusual characters to deal with. /Per Jessen, Zürich -- http://www.spamchek.com/ - your spam is our business. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse] Internet domain names with international characters (idn)
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 The Tuesday 2007-10-09 at 11:10 +0200, Clayton wrote: See: áéíóúàèìòùâêîôûäëïöüñÁÉÍÓÚÀÈÌÒÙÄËÏÖÜÂÊÎÔÛçÇñÑ and more: ćǵḱĺḿńṕŕśẃź I can understand why people would want these localized characters in their domain names. It totally makes sense from a localization aspect. Yep. However, it will bring new problems. One of them is trying to spell directions over the phone - imagine you wanting to come for a vacation to Spain and been told to go to www.españa.com (it exists) :-P On the other hand, I also really sympathize the frustration Doug expressed. Actually, you do not need to use those addreses. Very probably they will be of local interest only, and if not I guess the owners will also register a plain name too, for international usage. In any case, those strange names have a plain counterpart that is what is really searched for in the DNS. For instance, the above link is in fact http://www.xn--espaa-rta.com/ There may be a Compose key somewhere... but I've never heard of it used it... being basically monolingual, with just enough knowledge of Dutch, German and Spanish to get myself into trouble, I haven't needed a Compose key, and I suspect the vast majority haven't either. X'-) It might be a very good idea that this is enabled by default in .Xmodmap (if it isn't already? I'm not at home right now so can't check to see if Carlos' instructions work for me) I believe it is enabled by default. and that this is clearly documented somewhere (ie keystrokes for the different chars). If we can make it clear that typing these chars is relatively easy to do, this might ease the pain of the transition a little It is documented, but I don't know where. At least, the existence. I learnt about it when I first came into linux and tried to find a usable editor. I found vi, and I ruan away as if followed by a mad dog: it remided me of edlin. Then I saw emacs, and... couldn't run, because there was nought else (later I found joe). And emacs insisted on a compose key, and a meta key... so I learnt about it. Also, my computer at the time has a US key and I needed to type accents and such, so I found out how to type them in Linux. - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Made with pgp4pine 1.76 iD8DBQFHC5cxtTMYHG2NR9URAll1AJ44uev6QC6R+9fTJwOfMfb4+3yVVgCfY+ZT OBdY4CetxgZya+SCQVNql3M= =7/no -END PGP SIGNATURE-
Re: [opensuse] Internet domain names with international characters (idn)
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 * Carlos E. R. [EMAIL PROTECTED] [10-09-07 11:05]: The Tuesday 2007-10-09 at 11:10 +0200, Clayton wrote: There may be a Compose key somewhere... but I've never heard of it used it... being basically monolingual, with just enough knowledge of Dutch, German and Spanish to get myself into trouble, I haven't needed a Compose key, and I suspect the vast majority haven't either. X'-) It might be a very good idea that this is enabled by default in .Xmodmap (if it isn't already? I'm not at home right now so can't check to see if Carlos' instructions work for me) I believe it is enabled by default. no, and ~/.Xmodmap is not there unless you generate it yourself (since 10.1 or earlier ??). from cl xmodmap will show present key assignments, wahoo:~ xmodmap -pk |grep -i compose [no output] and that this is clearly documented somewhere (ie keystrokes for the different chars). If we can make it clear that typing these chars is relatively easy to do, this might ease the pain of the transition a little It is documented, but I don't know where. examples exist: /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/etc/xmodmap.std - -- Patrick Shanahan Plainfield, Indiana, USAHOG # US1244711 http://wahoo.no-ip.org Photo Album: http://wahoo.no-ip.org/gallery2 Registered Linux User #207535@ http://counter.li.org -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2.0.4-svn4472 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFHC5s9ClSjbQz1U5oRAie0AKCukvE9AZRZ51cmNZPCU8seXBziTwCgmPLy GZFL4Y/GBYVLE4Aonr7zR40= =/AJL -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse] Internet domain names with international characters (idn)
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 The Tuesday 2007-10-09 at 11:16 -0400, Patrick Shanahan wrote: I believe it is enabled by default. no, and ~/.Xmodmap is not there unless you generate it yourself (since 10.1 or earlier ??). Maybe; my system was upgraded from 8 something, over the years. I could have inherited that file, maybe I copied it over. from cl xmodmap will show present key assignments, wahoo:~ xmodmap -pk |grep -i compose [no output] Not important: I get the same result, and I do have the compose key. The string only appears in the comments. The real test is to try to compose a char. - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Made with pgp4pine 1.76 iD8DBQFHC6zItTMYHG2NR9URAjNaAJ9wr8t3lcvgBoM2LCzHvNVIgY4tyACeJlJ4 tZdqiTJRJ7Gf5PKsKeZK0b0= =ux7L -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse] Internet domain names with international characters (idn)
On Fri, 2007-10-05 at 23:51 +0200, Carlos E. R. wrote: They [.es] started registering IDN domains only two days ago, but that's about all I know. The charset they allow is published: 'á', 'à', 'é', 'è', 'í', 'ì', 'ó', 'ò', 'ú', 'ü', 'ñ', 'Ç' and 'l·l' but I don't know if there is danger in them or not, nor what is the policy. If they only started two days ago it's not surprising they aren't yet on the mozilla-approved list then :) There was a statement of how to submit another registry for incorporation on mozilla's list, IIRC. The list of characters looks innocuous to me but them I'm an ignorant Anglo-Saxon and can only spot characters that could be used to spoof the 'roman' (a.k.a. ascii :) alphabet. Perhaps there are multiple glyphs that look like e-acute or c-cedilla in some character set or other?! Cheers, Dave -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse] Internet domain names with international characters (idn)
On Thu, 2007-10-04 at 01:06 +0200, Carlos E. R. wrote: Another curiosity is that the whois for .com do support IDN, but others, like .cl or .es, do not - and they should, as they are interested parties in this. Also interesting and perhaps relevant is that cl is listed as a good guy on: http://www.mozilla.org/projects/security/tld-idn-policy-list.html Sadly com is not. Neither is es So if I read the implications correctly, you may be able to register spoof domains on .com and the whois will spoof you as well. You can't register spoof domains on .cl and the whois is completely unambiguous but a pain unless/until they upgrade their whois. Not sure what the position of .es is? Cheers, Dave -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse] Internet domain names with international characters (idn)
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 The Friday 2007-10-05 at 13:13 +0100, Dave Howorth wrote: On Thu, 2007-10-04 at 01:06 +0200, Carlos E. R. wrote: Another curiosity is that the whois for .com do support IDN, but others, like .cl or .es, do not - and they should, as they are interested parties in this. Also interesting and perhaps relevant is that cl is listed as a good guy on: http://www.mozilla.org/projects/security/tld-idn-policy-list.html I had no idea of this. Sadly com is not. Neither is es So if I read the implications correctly, you may be able to register spoof domains on .com and the whois will spoof you as well. You can't register spoof domains on .cl and the whois is completely unambiguous but a pain unless/until they upgrade their whois. Not sure what the position of .es is? They started registering IDN domains only two days ago, but that's about all I know. The charset they allow is published: 'á', 'à', 'é', 'è', 'í', 'ì', 'ó', 'ò', 'ú', 'ü', 'ñ', 'Ç' and 'l·l' but I don't know if there is danger in them or not, nor what is the policy. - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Made with pgp4pine 1.76 iD8DBQFHBrH2tTMYHG2NR9URAl5wAKCN3PnU4zN6Oxahgm94gHOotFGIrgCdEfue ldQU9qTycI8L94ERP0MvUmQ= =kLgu -END PGP SIGNATURE-
Re: [opensuse] Internet domain names with international characters (idn)
Carlos E. R. wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 The Friday 2007-10-05 at 13:13 +0100, Dave Howorth wrote: On Thu, 2007-10-04 at 01:06 +0200, Carlos E. R. wrote: Another curiosity is that the whois for .com do support IDN, but others, like .cl or .es, do not - and they should, as they are interested parties in this. Also interesting and perhaps relevant is that cl is listed as a good guy on: http://www.mozilla.org/projects/security/tld-idn-policy-list.html I had no idea of this. Sadly com is not. Neither is es So if I read the implications correctly, you may be able to register spoof domains on .com and the whois will spoof you as well. You can't register spoof domains on .cl and the whois is completely unambiguous but a pain unless/until they upgrade their whois. Not sure what the position of .es is? They started registering IDN domains only two days ago, but that's about all I know. The charset they allow is published: 'á', 'à', 'é', 'è', 'í', 'ì', 'ó', 'ò', 'ú', 'ü', 'ñ', 'Ç' and 'l·l' but I don't know if there is danger in them or not, nor what is the policy. - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. This looks nuts! Many of us have no convenient (or any) access to characters like this. I can do some of them in a word-proceesor, but certainly not in e-mail or Google, etc. Whose dumb idea was this, anyway? --doug -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse] Internet domain names with international characters (idn)
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 * Doug McGarrett [EMAIL PROTECTED] [10-05-07 19:49]: This looks nuts! Many of us have no convenient (or any) access to characters like this. I can do some of them in a word-proceesor, but certainly not in e-mail or Google, etc. Whose dumb idea was this, anyway? Feeling somewhat *crass* today? - -- Patrick Shanahan Plainfield, Indiana, USAHOG # US1244711 http://wahoo.no-ip.org Photo Album: http://wahoo.no-ip.org/gallery2 Registered Linux User #207535@ http://counter.li.org -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2.0.4-svn4472 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFHBtGoClSjbQz1U5oRAqW0AJ422hWf94xNCHWG9w6RWNmBFy40pQCeIv5e eKyUQLcBUSis/gTbZ2zXLLo= =lR1u -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse] Internet domain names with international characters (idn)
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 The Friday 2007-10-05 at 19:47 -0400, Doug McGarrett wrote: They started registering IDN domains only two days ago, but that's about all I know. The charset they allow is published: 'á', 'à', 'é', 'è', 'í', 'ì', 'ó', 'ò', 'ú', 'ü', 'ñ', 'Ç' and 'l·l' but I don't know if there is danger in them or not, nor what is the policy. This looks nuts! Many of us have no convenient (or any) access to characters like this. I can do some of them in a word-proceesor, but certainly not in e-mail or Google, etc. Whose dumb idea was this, anyway? But I can, and so can all or most of my compatriots. Remember I was talking about the .es top domain name. See: áéíóúàèìòùâêîôûäëïöüñÁÉÍÓÚÀÈÌÒÙÄËÏÖÜÂÊÎÔÛçÇñÑ and more: ćǵḱĺḿńṕŕśẃź However, you /do/ have access to them in Linux. Hint: compose key. Try hitting: [compose][c][,] -- yields ç What, you do not have the compose key? But you do, although you don't see it. :-P It is hidden as a combinations of keys. In mine, it is [shift], release, [shift][ctrl] It is configurable in .Xmodmap. - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Made with pgp4pine 1.76 iD8DBQFHBtNqtTMYHG2NR9URArwOAJ9+9aeXYE9DYZqiHx6NpfumM9MgggCfZzRo HBxWNS50K3glwlfXTxLrB1I= =k5NB -END PGP SIGNATURE-
[opensuse] Internet domain names with international characters (idn)
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Hi,
In Spain domain names with international characters ('á', 'à', 'é', 'è',
'í', 'ì', 'ó', 'ò', 'ú', 'ü', 'ñ', 'Ç' y 'l·l') have been enabled since
yesterday
(http://www.elmundo.es/navegante/2007/10/01/tecnologia/1191262954.html)
There is a sample web in Chile: http://www.ñandú.cl/, and it works fine
in Firefox in OpenSuse 10.2. However, it doesn't work for commands like
host, dig or ping:
In an xterm using UTF-8:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~ host www.ñandú.cl
Host www.\195\177and\195\186.cl not found: 3(NXDOMAIN)
In an xterm using en_US.ISO-8859-1:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~ host www.ñandú.cl
Host www.\241and\250.cl not found: 3(NXDOMAIN)
Is 'host' buggy? I haven't tried suse 10.3 yet.
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Cheers,
Carlos Robinson
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Re: [opensuse] Internet domain names with international characters (idn)
Hi Carlos,
interesting... I can access the site on Firefox 2.x in OpenSuSE 10.2 but I get
other codes back:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~ host www.ñandú.cl
Host www.\195\177and\195\186.cl not found: 3(NXDOMAIN)
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~ echo $LANG
en_US.UTF-8
...is UTF-8 buggy? :o)
Anyway, as for your question... I don't thing host or ping or dig are buggy;
they just don't know how to handle these international characters, I guess...
YMMV
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Sent: Wednesday, October 3, 2007 11:59:30 AM
Subject: [opensuse] Internet domain names with international characters (idn)
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Hi,
In Spain domain names with international characters ('á', 'à', 'é', 'è',
'í', 'ì', 'ó', 'ò', 'ú', 'ü', 'ñ', 'Ç' y 'l·l') have been enabled since
yesterday
(http://www.elmundo.es/navegante/2007/10/01/tecnologia/1191262954.html)
There is a sample web in Chile: http://www.ñandú.cl/, and it works fine
in Firefox in OpenSuse 10.2. However, it doesn't work for commands like
host, dig or ping:
In an xterm using UTF-8:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~ host www.ñandú.cl
Host www.\195\177and\195\186.cl not found: 3(NXDOMAIN)
In an xterm using en_US.ISO-8859-1:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~ host www.ñandú.cl
Host www.\241and\250.cl not found: 3(NXDOMAIN)
Is 'host' buggy? I haven't tried suse 10.3 yet.
- --
Cheers,
Carlos Robinson
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Re: [opensuse] Internet domain names with international characters (idn)
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 The Wednesday 2007-10-03 at 03:32 -0700, Martin Mielke wrote: interesting... I can access the site on Firefox 2.x in OpenSuSE 10.2 but I get other codes back: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~ host www.ñandú.cl Host www.\195\177and\195\186.cl not found: 3(NXDOMAIN) [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~ echo $LANG en_US.UTF-8 ...is UTF-8 buggy? :o) It seems the codes depend on the lang setting. I also get the same as you with en_US.UTF-8. Anyway, as for your question... I don't thing host or ping or dig are buggy; they just don't know how to handle these international characters, I guess... But somehow it does know? I mean, it tries to translate to escapes. I think it should work, anyhow. Now, if somebody can try in opensuse 10.3... - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Made with pgp4pine 1.76 iD8DBQFHA3KwtTMYHG2NR9URAuY1AJ4+1E4TkMrkkoIQhIc9pLSknu5a3wCfSHgJ FFnVuo/j35I5lili61BZDp8= =HQT6 -END PGP SIGNATURE-
Re: [opensuse] Internet domain names with international characters (idn)
On Wed, 2007-10-03 at 12:44 +0200, Carlos E. R. wrote: The Wednesday 2007-10-03 at 03:32 -0700, Martin Mielke wrote: interesting... I can access the site on Firefox 2.x in OpenSuSE 10.2 but I get other codes back: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~ host www.ñandú.cl Host www.\195\177and\195\186.cl not found: 3(NXDOMAIN) [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~ echo $LANG en_US.UTF-8 ...is UTF-8 buggy? :o) It seems the codes depend on the lang setting. I also get the same as you with en_US.UTF-8. Anyway, as for your question... I don't thing host or ping or dig are buggy; they just don't know how to handle these international characters, I guess... But somehow it does know? I mean, it tries to translate to escapes. I think it should work, anyhow. I think the answer is linked to by the Chilean site: It should be noted that, even though some programs used in the Internet, in particular some browsers, already implement IDN and effect this conversion automatically, others still do not. See http://www.nic.cl/CL-IDN-policy.html and on Suse 10.2, when I use the RFC3490-specified encoding, it works: $ host www.xn--and-6ma2c.cl www.xn--and-6ma2c.cl has address 200.1.123.3 So I don't think there's a bug, just patience until new versions come along. Cheers, Dave -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse] Internet domain names with international characters (idn)
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 The Wednesday 2007-10-03 at 13:30 +0100, Dave Howorth wrote: I think the answer is linked to by the Chilean site: It should be noted that, even though some programs used in the Internet, in particular some browsers, already implement IDN and effect this conversion automatically, others still do not. See http://www.nic.cl/CL-IDN-policy.html and on Suse 10.2, when I use the RFC3490-specified encoding, it works: $ host www.xn--and-6ma2c.cl www.xn--and-6ma2c.cl has address 200.1.123.3 I will have to read that. So I don't think there's a bug, just patience until new versions come along. I guess so. I'll have to learn more about how it is supposed to work, first. I found another link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internationalized_domain_name - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Made with pgp4pine 1.76 iD8DBQFHA7K0tTMYHG2NR9URApigAJsH9oxFLS/wAqjz3r+Lt60LsSVBXQCfePLy fK9DFhm89V3hea656n1q0CE= =O85l -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse] Internet domain names with international characters (idn)
Carlos E. R. wrote: I'll have to learn more about how it is supposed to work, first. I found another link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internationalized_domain_name It's really straight forward - IDNs are primarily for end-user consumption. In the real world, or rather behind the scenes, they are ugly looking beasts such as: www.xn--and-6ma2c.cl Your email agent and your browser will understand about IDNs, as should any other GUI, but I doubt if we're likely to see command-line tools that speak punycode any time soon. /Per Jessen, Zürich -- http://www.spamchek.com/ - your spam is our business. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse] Internet domain names with international characters (idn)
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 The Wednesday 2007-10-03 at 18:08 +0200, Per Jessen wrote: Carlos E. R. wrote: I'll have to learn more about how it is supposed to work, first. I found another link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internationalized_domain_name It's really straight forward - IDNs are primarily for end-user consumption. In the real world, or rather behind the scenes, they are ugly looking beasts such as: www.xn--and-6ma2c.cl Your email agent and your browser will understand about IDNs, as should any other GUI, but I doubt if we're likely to see command-line tools that speak punycode any time soon. Yes, that's what I read. The wikipedia article is quite easy to read. I have found webpages doing the conversion to punycode for us to see, but i haven't found a command line utility that could be used to output names to 'host', for instance. However, a friend discovered that the man page for host and dig (the online version) mention that they can be compiled with IDN support, and thus do the conversion. It appears that the commands supplied by suse were not enabled; I'd like to know why, whether because they are problematic, buggy, or what. Another curiosity is that the whois for .com do support IDN, but others, like .cl or .es, do not - and they should, as they are interested parties in this. - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Made with pgp4pine 1.76 iD8DBQFHBCBptTMYHG2NR9URAhvZAJ9P8vX+r551/tUsipIU+BeNeiYqggCeJ81c VSYtgFWiCv69pSCGOvtyrMo= =YGhP -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
